Alexander Viets Griswold Allen

Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (May 4, 1841 1908) was an American author, Episcopal clergyman and theologian.

Alexander Viets Griswold Allen
BornMay 4, 1841
Otis 
Died1908  (aged 66–67)
Alma mater
OccupationAuthor, clergyman, theologian

Biography

Allen was born in Otis, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1841.[1] 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]

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).

References

Citations

  1. Johnson 1906, p. 79

Sources

  • Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold". The Biographical Dictionary of America. 1. Boston, Mass.: American Biographical Society. p. 79. Retrieved December 13, 2020 via en.wikisource.org. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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