Alexander Viets Griswold Allen

American theologian and clergyman

Author
clergyman
theologian

Alma mater

Kenyon College
Andover Theological Seminary
Harvard
Yale

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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,^[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

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

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).^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Johnson 1906, p. 79
^ ^a ^b ALLEN, Alexander Viets Griswold, in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition), via archive.org
^ ^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.
^ 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.

Attribtuion

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 79.