John Thomas McNeill (28 July 1885, Elmsdale, Prince Edward Island - 2 February 1975, Chicago) was a Canadian church historian.
[1] In 1922 he was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for his work The Celtic Penitentials and Their Influence on Continental Christianity.
[4] He served alongside of John Baillie and Henry P. Van Dusen as a general editor of the Library of Christian Classics series, which includes modern translations of the writings of Christian theologians and thinkers such as Aquinas, Augustine, Calvin, Luther and other reformers and early church fathers.
McNeill himself was the chief editor of the series' release of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion in a fresh translation in more contemporary English based on extensive knowledge of Patristics and Classical literature by Ford Lewis Battles at McNeill’s personal request.
[5] The production of this most recent English translation (released in 1960) of the French Reformer's "magnum opus" was the work of several Latin scholars and theologians on both sides of the Atlantic.