George Vance Smith was a Unitarian minister and scholar appointed to the English New Testament Revision Company.
Setting: British Unitarian; the only Unitarian member of the New Testament Revision Company.
George Vance Smith was a Unitarian minister and scholar appointed to the English New Testament Revision Company. His participation became a public controversy, especially because he later described doctrinal consequences he found in the revised text and margins.
The record is important for the Burgon and Revision dossiers. It must distinguish Smith’s individual arguments from the collective decisions of the revisers and avoid claiming that his presence alone proves the motive of every textual change.
Bibliological positions
Smith accepted the critical revision of passages traditionally used for Christ’s deity and discussed their effect on theological argument. His account supplies primary evidence for how one Unitarian reviser understood the revision.
Qualifications and disputes
Collective revision decisions cannot be attributed to Smith without minutes or votes. His published celebration of results is evidence of reception, not by itself proof of origin.
The extent of Smith’s influence on particular readings and renderings is disputed.
Sources
- Internet Archive creator search — Works and historical catalogues
Principal works
- Texts and Margins of the Revised New Testament Affecting Theological Doctrine Briefly Reviewed (1881); legacy
WRK-1093; WRK; Ready after permanent-ID allocation and duplicate scan
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
Relationship labels distinguish contact, refutation, later reporting, accusation, textual agreement, compatibility, and causation. A connection does not silently inherit the force of another connection.
Interaction chart
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- Record
- PER-3072
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-profile
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 2026-07-22 · Exact Day
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis; cited sources retain their stated rights.
- Known limitations
- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
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Records that cite or connect here
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Corrections and evidence submissions
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Chris Thomas, “George Vance Smith,” PER-3072, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas
- — Chris Thomas