William Henry Paine Hatch, Ph.D., D.D. (August 2, 1875 – November 11, 1972) was an
American theologian and
New Testament scholar, born at
Camden, N. J. He attended
Harvard, graduating in 1898 (Ph.D., 1904). Afterward, he graduated the
Episcopal Theological School in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the
General Theological Seminary in
New York City. He was ordained to the
Episcopal priesthood in 1902. Hatch was awarded a
Doctor of Divinity from
Union Theological Seminary in New York and a D.Théol. from the
University of Strasbourg. He was Professor of the Literature and Interpretation of the New Testament at the
Episcopal Theological School in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hatch published many articles and reviews and was the author of
The Pauline Idea of Faith (1917), and, with C. C. Edmunds,
The Gospel Manuscripts of the General Theological Seminary (1918).