William R. Farmer
American theologian
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William R. Farmer's Degrees
- Bachelors Classical Languages Baylor University
- Bachelors Theology Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- PhD Theology Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Reuben Farmer was an American New Testament scholar, professor of theology at Southern Methodist University, and advocate of ecumenism. Biography Farmer studied at Cambridge University in England and Union Theological Seminary in New York . He graduated seminary in 1952. Farmer was then ordained as a minister of the United Methodist Church. He became a professor at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in 1959 or 1960. There, he was known as an associate and ally to Albert Outler, a Protestant historian of the church who closely observed and studied the Catholic Church and supported both the paleo-orthodox and the ecumenical movement. Farmer supported the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and served on its board of directors in supporting civil rights for African-Americans in Dallas. In 1990 at the age of 67, he also joined the Roman Catholic Church as a lay member. He attempted to stay in both churches at once as a nod toward ecumenism, but was unable; the Methodist Judicial Council ruled that joining another denomination automatically terminates UMC membership. After his retirement and conversion, he did occasional projects with the University of Dallas, a Catholic University in Irving, such as editing a volume of Bible commentaries from a Catholic and ecumenical perspective. Farmer died in 2000 in Dallas of prostate cancer.
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