Background
Taylor, Theophilus Mills was born on June 22, 1909 in Cedarville, Ohio, United States. Son of Mills J. and Martha Slater (Dill) Taylor.
clergyman educator church administrator
Taylor, Theophilus Mills was born on June 22, 1909 in Cedarville, Ohio, United States. Son of Mills J. and Martha Slater (Dill) Taylor.
Student, Muskingum College, 1927-1930; honorary Doctor of Divinity, Muskingum College, 1944; Bachelor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1935; Master of Divinity, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, 1941; postgraduate, University of Chicago, 1946; Doctor of Philosophy in Religion, Yale, 1956.
Teacher general science, industrial arts, Woodstock School, India, 1935-1938;
ordained to ministry, United Presbyterian Church, 1941;
assistant pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Crafton, Pennsylvania, 1940-1941;
pastor, United Presbyterian Church, Barnet Center, Vermont, 1941-1943;
John McNaugher professor New Testament literature and exegesis, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, 1943-1959;
dean department graduate studies, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, 1946-1959;
professor, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 1960-1962;
secretary general council, General Assembly United Presbyterian Church United States of America, 1962-1972;
also chairman, Church Executive Development Board, 1968-1974;
president, Religion in American Life, 1970-1973;
member corporation, trustee, Religion in American Life, 1974-1979;
emeritus trustee, Religion in American Life, 1980-1989. Assistant director archeological excavations, Beitin, Jordan, 1957, 60. U.P. representative American committee World Council Churches, 1946-1948, delegate constituting assembly, 1948.
Representative to Conference United States of America Member Churches, 1948-1961. Delegate 16th General Council ofAlliance Reformed Churches, Geneva, 1948, 18th General Council, Sao Paolo, 1959, 3d World Conference on Faith and Order, Lund, Sweden, 1952, 4th conference, Montreal, 1963. Delegate 2d assembly World Council Churches, Evanston, Illinois, 1954, adviser 3d assembly, New Delhi, 1961.
Member committee religion public education Pennsylvania Council Christian Education, 1950-1954. Secretary joint drafting committee Conference Church Union of Presbyterian United States of America and U.P. Churches, 1955-1957. Moderator general assembly U.P. Church United States of America, 1958-1959, chairman commission ecumenical mission and relations, 1959-1962.
Member working committee Commission Faith and Order, World Council Churches, 1952-1971, member Commission, 1952-1975, chairman theological commission Holy Eucharist, faith and order, 1965-1971. Member Executive Committee, general board, chairman general constituent membership committee National Council Churches, United States of America, 1960-1972. Secretary American Council for Boys' Industrial Home and Technology School, Gujranwala, India, 1944-1962.
Board of directors Center for Interfaith Research on Religious Architecture. Member corporation Nyack (New York) Hospital, 1965-1972. Trustee Muskingum College, 1965-1978, emeritus trustee, 1979-1989.
Member Archaeol. Institute American, Society Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Guild for Religious Architecture, Presbyterian History Society (president 1964-1971), Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, International Association for a Union of Democracies (member of council since 1972, president 1973-1985), American Oriental Society.
Married Lois Dean McLaughlin, March 12, 1936. Children: Martha Renwick, Theophilus Mills III, Jessica Anne, Caroline Kerr.