John McIntyre (theologian)

John McIntyre CVO, FRSE (20 May 1916 – 15 December 2005) was a Scottish minister and theologian.

McIntyre was born in Glasgow on 20 May 1916 into a working-class family; he was the son of a carpenter. He was educated at Bathgate Academy and the University of Edinburgh (MA in Mental Philosophy First-class honours 1938, BD with Distinction).

He was ordained as a minister in the Church of Scotland in 1941 and worked in Glen Orchy and Inishail as locum tenens (1941–43) and in Fenwick as minister (1943–45).

In 1946 he was appointed Hunter Baillie Professor of Theology at St. Andrew's College, Sydney. He remained at the college until 1956, having been appointed Principal in 1950. He was elected Honorary Fellow in 1990. He obtained his DPhil in 1953. In 1956 he was appointed Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh, having declined the offer of a position at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. He held the chair until 1986. He was in addition Principal of New College and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity (1968–74) and acting Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the university (1973–74 and again in 1979). He was first senior warden of Pollock Halls of Residence, where the refectory is now named in his honour.

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