Jonathan Edwards
The First Critical Biography, 1889
Published on 1. March 2008
420 pages
978-1-7252-2108-6 (ISBN)
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While there were earlier biographies and memoirs of Jonathan Edwards, the great eighteenth-century religious figure, than the one written by A. V. G. Allen, they were apologetic versions that had been produced by Edwards's disciples. Allen's stands out as the first to approach the life of Edwards comprehensively and critically, attempting to discern the positive and negative elements in his thought. Nearly forgotten today, Allen's book deserves a place among the landmark studies on Edwards.
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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).
