Background
Grant, Frederick Clifton was born on February 2, 1891 in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Frank Avery and Anna Lois (Jack) Grant.
Grant, Frederick Clifton was born on February 2, 1891 in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Frank Avery and Anna Lois (Jack) Grant.
Educated Lawrence College, Nashotah (Wisconsin) House. Bachelor of Divinity, General Theological Seminary, 1913, South.T.D. (honorary), 1952. School of Theology and Ministry, Western Theological Seminary, 1916.
Doctor of Theology, 1922, South.T.D., 1958.
Doctor of Divinity, Nashotah House, 1927, Garrett Biblical Institute, 1938. Doctorate.S. Little, Kenyon College, 1939.
Doctor of Humane Letters, University Chicago, 1953. South.T.D., General Theological Seminary, 1953, Virginia Theological Seminary, 1959.
Doctor of Civil Law, Bishop’s University, 1948.
Doctor of Letters, Princeton University, 1958. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hebrew Union College, 1962. Senior Fulbright scholar University of Oxford, 1959-1960.
Deacon 1912, priest, 1913, P.E. Church. President Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, 1927-1938. Professor Biblical Theology, Union Theological Seminary, 1938-1959, and director of graduate studies 1945-1954.
Visiting professor, University Chicago, 1928, 37, 63.
Member Society Biblical Literature and Exegesis (president, 1934), Chicago Society Biblical. Member General Convention P.E. Ch.1928, 31, 34, 37, and Member commission on revision of American Standard Revised Version of the Bible since 1937.
Member versions committee American Bible Society, 1944-1954.
One of three observers Anglican Communion at Vatican Council, Rome, 1962-1963.
Married to Helen McQueen Hardie, June 24, 1913. Children: Robert McQueen, Eleanor Jean.