Born: Ju­ly 16, 1899, To­ron­to, Ca­na­da.

Died: No­vem­ber 1, 1987, To­ron­to, Ca­na­da.

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, Van­cou­ver, Bri­tish Co­lum­bia; Unit­ed The­o­log­ic­al Coll­ege, Mc­Gill Un­i­ver­si­ty, Mont­re­al (where he was the first dean of the Fa­cul­ty of Di­vin­i­ty/Re­li­gious Stu­dies); and Prince­ton The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary (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. His works in­clude:

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

Sources

Hymns

1. Eternal, Unchanging, We Sing to Thy Praise (1938)
2. O Day of God, Draw Nigh