Author:Alexander V. G. AllenBiography:Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (1841-1908) was an Episcopal theologian educated at Kenyon College and Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1865 and was the founder and first rector of St John's Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1867 he was appointed professor of church history in the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. His principal writings are Continuity of Christian Thought (1884), Life of Jonathan Edwards (1889), Religious Progress (1893), Christian Institutions (1897) and Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks (1900).Books By This Author:Jonathan Edwards by Alexander V. G. Allen |