About Alexander Viets Griswold Allen
Lived 1841 – 1908 (aged 66–67). Alexander Viets Griswold Allen was an American theologian, biographer, writer, author and professor.
Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (May 4, 1841 – July 1, 1908) was an American author, Episcopal clergyman and theologian.
Biography Allen was born in Otis, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1841, to Ethan and Lydia Child Allen, née Burr.
He graduated from Kenyon College in 1862 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1865.
Works His publications include: 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).
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American theologian (1841-1908)
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Alexander Viets Griswold Allen was born on 4 May 1841 in Otis.
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Alexander Viets Griswold Allen died in 1908 in Cambridge.
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Alexander Viets Griswold Allen was a theologian, biographer, writer, author and professor.
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