Papers of John Rodger Gray, 1913-1984, theology graduate, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Lecture notes:

• Formal Logic1930;
• Logic I & II 1930-1931;
• Moral Philosophy (ordinary) 1931;
• Sermons 1932;
• Political Economy - Banking and Currency 1931-1932;
• Political Philosophy 1932-1933;
• Political Economy 1932-1933;
• Bibliographies 1933;
• Political Economy 1933;
• Political Philosophy 1933-1934;
• Beginnings and Developments of Religion 1934-1935;
• Kant 1934-1935;
• Plato 1934-1935;
• Apologetics 1935;
• New Testament 1935;
• Dogmatics 1935;
• Background of New Testament 1935;
• Logic and Metaphysics 1936;
• Pastoral Theology 1936-1937;
• Lecture notes of Sheila M Whiteside (later Mrs Gray) c.1949.

John Rodger Gray was born on 9 January 1913  . His father was a master butcher. He entered the University of Glasgow aged 17 and was a student from 1930-1934  . In his first year, 1930-1931, he studied English, History (Ordinary), Logic (Ordinary) and Greek. The following year, 1931-1932, he studied Political Economics, Moral Philosophy and Psychology. In his third year, 1932-1933, he studied for Junior Hons in Political Economics, Political Economics and Political Philosophy. In his final year, 1933-1934, Gray studied for Senior Honours in Political Economics and Political Philosophy. He graduated MA in 1934  . He went on to graduate MA and BD (Yale University) and ThM (Princeton University).

He worked as a minister and then became the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 1977  . John R. Gray died in Dunblane on 9 August 1984.

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Deposited by John Gray, 1984

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Updated by Emma Yan, Assistant Archivist (Cataloguing), 16 January 2008