Alexander Viets Griswold Allen
- Alexander Viets Griswold Allen
Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, D.D. (1841–1908) was a Episcopal theologian, born at Otis, Massachusetts, United States of America. He graduated at Kenyon College in 1862 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1865. He was ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church in that year, and in 1867 became professor of Church history in the Episcopalian divinity school at Cambridge.
His publications include:
* "Continuity of Christian Thought" (Bohlen Lectures for 1883, Boston, 1884; eleventh edition, 1895)
* "Life of Jonathan Edwards" (1889)
* "Religious Progress" (1894)
* "Christian Institutions" (New York, 1897)
* "Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks" (two volumes, 1901)
Literature
C. Slattery for his "Life", (New York, 1911).
References
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