Donald Macpherson Baillie

Donald Macpherson Baillie (5 November 1887 – 31 October 1954) was a Scottish theologian, ecumenist, and parish minister.

Baillie was ordained in 1918. Before his ordination he had worked an assistant in North Morningside Church, Edinburgh and the YMCA in France and at St. Boswell's Church in Edinburgh. After his ordination, he served as the minister of Bervie United Free Church from 1918-1923, followed by St. John's, Cupar until 1930 and then at St. Columba's, Kilmacolm until 1934. From 1911 to 1914, Bailee was an assistant to the Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed Kerr lecturer at the University of Glasgow in 1923, delivering lectures in 1926. This was followed by his appointment as a professor of divinity at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews. In 1935, he became Professor of Systematic Theology.

Baillie also worked as internal examiner at St Andrews, as an external examiner for the University of Edinburgh, and as a visiting lecturer at the University of Liverpool and the San Francisco Theological Seminary. In 1948, he co-founded the Scottish Churches Ecumenical Association. In 1933, he was given an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity by the University of St Andrews. His Kerr lectures at Glasgow were turned into the book Faith in God and its Christian Consummation (1927). His more famous work was God was in Christ (1948). Several of his sermons were gathered into two posthumous volumes, To Whom Shall We Go? (1955) and Out of Nazareth (1958).