Introduction

Biography

Scott was a gra­du­ate of Knox Col­lege at the Uni­ver­si­ty of To­ron­to (PhD).

Ordained a Unit­ed Church of Ca­na­da min­is­ter in 1926, he served in Long Branch, On­tar­io.

He went on to teach at Un­ion Col­lege (now the Van­cou­ver School of Theo­lo­gy), Van­cou­ver, Brit­ish Co­lum­bia; the Unit­ed Theo­lo­gic­al Col­lege, Mc­Gill Uni­ver­si­ty, Mon­tr­eal (where he was the first dean of the Fa­cul­ty of Di­vi­ni­ty/Re­li­gious Stu­dies); and Prince­ton Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, New Jer­sey (chair of the re­li­gion de­part­ment and Dan­forth Pro­fess­or of Re­li­gion).

He al­so served as pre­si­dent of the Fel­low­ship for a Chris­tian So­cial Or­der, and was a Roy­al Ca­na­di­an Air Force chap­lain in World War II.

Works

• The Orig­in­al Lang­uage of the Apo­ca­lypse
• The Rel­e­vance of the Pro­phets, 1945
• Towards Chris­tian Re­vo­lu­tion, with Gre­go­ry Vlas­tos