Alexander Viets Griswold Allen

Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (May 4, 1841 – July 1, 1908) was an American author, Episcopal clergyman and theologian.

Alexander Viets Griswold Allen
ChurchEpiscopal
Orders
Ordination
  • July 5, 1865 (deacon)
  • June 24, 1866 (priest)
Personal details
Born(1841-05-04)May 4, 1841
DiedJuly 1, 1908(1908-07-01) (aged 67)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Occupation
Alma mater
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Biography

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Allen was born in Otis, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1841,[1] to Ethan and Lydia Child Allen, née Burr.[2][3]

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 Kent Stone; they remained together until her death in 1892.[2] The couple had two children; Henry Van Dyke and John Stone Allen.[3]

Career

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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]

He died in Cambridge on July 1, 1908.[4]

Works

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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

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Johnson 1906, p. 79
  2. ^ a b ALLEN, Alexander Viets Griswold, in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition), via archive.org
  3. ^ a b Rand, John Clark (1890). One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89. First National Publishing Company. pp. 11–12.
  4. ^ Wells, Charles L. (January 1911). "Memoir of Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, D.D." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. XLIV: 362. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Internet Archive.

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