Clarence Tucker Craig

Background

Craig, Clarence Tucker was born on June 7, 1895 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States. Son of Alfred Edwin and Clara (Tucker) C., Bachelor of Arts, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, 1915.

Education

Bachelor of Sacred Theology, Boston University, 1919, Doctor of Philosophy from same University, 1924. Doctor of Literature, Boston University, 1947. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1946.

Graduate study Harvard University, 1919-1920, Basel University, Switzerland, 1920, University of Berlin, 1921-1922.

Doctor of Divinity, Evansville (Indiana) College, 1927, University of Glasgow (Scotland), 1951.

Career

Teacher, Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow, China, 1915-1916. Ordained to ministry of Mechanical Engineering Church, 1918. Pastor, Walpole, Massachusetts, 1918-1919.

Associate Trinity Mechanical Engineering Church., Evansville, Indiana, 1921, pastor Clifton Mechanical Engineering Church, Cincinnati, 1922-1926, Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York, 1926-1928.

Professor New Testament language and literature, Oberlin (O.) Graduate School Theology, 1928-1946. Educational representative for Revised Standard Version, 1946.

Professor New Testament Yale Divinity School, 1946-1949, dean, Drew Theological Seminary, since September 1949. Teacher Garrett Biblical Institute, summers 1931, 34, 49, Union (New York) summers 1942, 45, 47.

Achievements

• Clarence Tucker Craig has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of board of managers American Bible Society, Nanking Theological School Chairman advising committee First Assembly World Council Churches. Member American Standard Bible Translation Committee. Member Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, National Association Biblical Instructors

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Member editorial board, Religion in Life.

Connections

Married Rena Catherine Stebbins, September 4, 1925. Children: John Tucker, Peter Stebbins, Martha Alden, Michael Alden.

Father:

Alfred Edwin Craig

Mother:

Clara (Tucker) Craig

Spouse:

Rena Catherine Stebbins

child:

Martha Alden Craig

child:

Michael Alden Craig

child:

John Tucker Craig

child:

Peter Stebbins Craig