Alexander Viets Griswold Allen

For other people named Alexander Allen, see Alexander Allen (disambiguation).

Alexander Viets Griswold Allen
Born	May 4, 1841 Otis
Died	July 1, 1908  (aged 67) Cambridge
Resting place	Mount Auburn Cemetery
Alma mater	Kenyon College Andover Theological Seminary
Occupation	Author, clergyman, theologian
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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. He graduated from Kenyon College in 1862 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1865. He received the degree D.D. from Kenyon 1878, from Harvard, 1886, and from Yale, 1901.

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. 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. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts historical society.

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).

References

Sources

• Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 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.

External links

• "Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold" . The Biographical Dictionary of America. 1906.