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Douglas Clyde Macintosh Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RG 50

Scope and Contents

This collection provides a good overview of Macintosh's professional life, which was spent primarily at Yale Divinity School. The correspondence in Series I is not extensive, but includes letters from colleagues such as John Baillie, Josiah Royce, and Henry Nelson Wieman. Macintosh's thoughts on theological subjects are expressed in a few letters, but most are more routine exchanges related to his writings, students, and engagements.

The Writings of Series II include offprints and published pamphlets as well as typescript manuscripts. One of these manuscripts, "The Plain Man's Soliloquy," has not been published.

The Notes of Series III include extensive handwritten notes taken by Macintosh and notes taken by a student in Macintosh's Systematic Theology course in 1940.

Most significant among the biographical materials of Series IV is a large scrapbook that includes correspondence, clippings, and documents related to Macintosh's citizenship case. A native of Canada, Macintosh was denied United States citizenship by the Supreme Court because of his stance against bearing arms.

Dates

  • 1906-1978

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the Macintosh family. Material from Mark Heim added 2021.

Arrangement

  1. I. Correspondence, 1907-1946, undated
  2. II. Writings, 1911-1945
  3. III. Notes, 1906-1910, undated
  4. IV. Biographical Documentation, 1911-1978

Extent

5.5 Linear Feet (10 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/divinity.050

Abstract

Letters, writings, and memorabilia document Macintosh's life and work. Douglas Clyde Macintosh was Professor of Theology at Yale from 1909 to 1942.

Biographical / Historical

1877
Born in Canada
1903
B.A., McMaster University, Toronto
1907
Ordained into Baptist ministry
Professor of Bible and Systematic Theology at Brandon College, Manitoba
1909
Ph.D., University of Chicago
1909-1916
Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School
World War I
Chaplain to Canadian forces in France; YMCA worker with American troops
1916-1933
Dwight Professor of Theology, Yale Divinity School
1920-1938
Chairman of the Religion Department, Yale University
1924-1925
Nathaniel W. Taylor Lecturer
1926
D.D., Colgate University
1931
Denied U.S. citizenship by Supreme Court, for refusal in advance to bear arms in defense of U.S.
1932
LL.D., McMaster University
1933-1942
Dwight Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion
1942
Suffered paralytic stroke
1942-1948
Professor Emeritus
1948
Died in Hamden, Connecticut
Title
Guide to the Douglas Clyde Macintosh Papers
Author
Compiled by Jane Thomson and Martha Lund Smalley
Date
1998, 2015, 2021
Description rules
Finding Aid Prepared According To Local Divinity Library Descriptive Practices
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

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