Biography

George Arthur Buttrick was born in Seaham Harbour, England

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 on March 23, 1892. He attended the Victoria University of Manchester

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 and moved to the United States

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. He served as a pastor

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 in Quincy, Illinois

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, Rutland, Vermont

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, Buffalo, New York

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, and New York City

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. He gave a lecture series at Yale University

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, and in 1955 he became professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University

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. He was then a guest professor at the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

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, and in 1960 he taught at Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary. He later taught at Davidson College

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, Vanderbilt University

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, and the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky

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