George Pease Williams was born in 1914.[1] His father David Rhys Williams was a Unitarianminister who signed the Humanist Manifesto,[2] while his grandparents were Congregationalists.
Williams changed his middle name as a young man and chose the name of his village, Huntsburg, Ohio.[2] He went to study at St. Lawrence University (graduated 1936) and Meadville Theological School (graduated 1939). After his academic studies in history of Christianity at the European universities of Paris and Strasbourg, he returned to the United States and became assistant minister of a Unitarian church in Rockford, Illinois, where he married his wife Marjorie Derr in 1941.
In 1962 he was one of several official Protestant observers who attended the sessions of the Second Vatican Council,[1] where he met the future Pope John Paul II.
The Polish Brethren: Documentation of the History and Thought of Unitarianism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in the Diaspora 1601-1685, Scholars Press, 1980, ISBN0-89130-343-X.
The Mind of John Paul II: Origins of His Thought and Action, Seabury, 1981, ISBN0816404631.
Unterschiede zwischen dem polnischen und dem siebenbürgisch-ungarischen Unitarismus und ihre Ursachen, in: Wolfgang Deppert/Werner Erdt/Aart de Groot (Hrsg.): Der Einfluß der Unitarier auf die europäisch-amerikanische Geistesgeschichte, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main/Bern/New York/Paris 1990, ISSN 0930-4118, ISBN3-631-41859-0, S. 33-57.
Article The Attitude of Liberals in New England toward Non-Christian Religions, 1784-1885, Crane Review 9.
Family
Williams was married to Marjorie Derr for 59 years and they had four children.[7]