Alexander Viets Griswold Allen
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Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, D.D. (1841–1908) was a Episcopal theologian, born at Otis, Massachusetts, United States of America. He graduated at Kenyon College in 1862 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1865. He was ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church in that year, and in 1867 became professor of Church history in the Episcopalian divinity school at Cambridge.
His publications include:
- Continuity of Christian Thought (Boston, 1884; eleventh edition, 1895)
- Life of Jonathan Edwards (1889)
- Religious Progress (1894)
- Christian Institutions (New York, 1897)
- Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks (two volumes, 1901)
[edit] Literature
C. Slattery for his Life, (New York, 1911).

