Alexander Viets Griswold Allen

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Alexander Viets Griswold Allen
BornMay 4, 1841
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Died1908 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 66–67)
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Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (May 4, 1841 – 1908) was an American author, Episcopal clergyman and theologian.

Biography[]

Allen was born in Otis, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1841,[1] to Ethan and Lydia Allen.[2]

He graduated from Kenyon College in 1862 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1865.[1] He received the degree D.D. from Kenyon 1878, from Harvard, 1886, and from Yale, 1901.[1]

In 1872, he married Elizabeth Stone; they remained together until her death in 1892.[2]

Career[]

Allen was a resident licentiate of Andover, Massachusetts, from 1865 to 1867, he also took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, being ordained a deacon, July 5, 1865, and priest, June 24, 1866.[1] He was rector of St. John's church, Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1865 to 1867, and professor of ecclesiastical history at the Episcopal theological school at Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1867.[1] He was elected a member of the Massachusetts historical society.[1]

Works[]

His publications include:[1]

  • The Continuity of Christian Thought (Boston, 1884; eleventh edition, 1895)
  • The Greek Theology and the Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century (1884, his Bohlen Lectures)
  • Jonathan Edwards (1889)
  • Memoir of Phillips Brooks (1891)
  • Religious Progress (1894)
  • Christian Institutions (New York, 1897)
  • Life and Letters of Bishop Brooks (two volumes, 1900)
Literature
  • C. Slattery for his Life, (New York, 1911).[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Johnson 1906, p. 79
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b ALLEN, Alexander Viets Griswold, in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition), via archive.org

Attribtuion

  • Wikisource This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainJohnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold". The Biographical Dictionary of America. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 79.


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