The Scientific Theist: A Life of Francis Ellingwood AbbotMercer University Press, 1987 - 171 pages This work is based on Sydney Ahlstrom's 1951 Harvard dissertation. The biography of Francis Ellingwood Abbot has been completely rewritten to focus on the context of his life and, as such, provides a vista into the intellectual and religious world of America in the late nineteenth century. Ahlstrom and one of his former students, Robert Bruce Mullin, began reworking the dissertation in 1983. |
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Harvard | 13 |
The Ministerial Candidate | 30 |
The Ministry at Dover | 42 |
The Defection of the Radicals | 61 |
Toledo and the Index | 81 |
Secularism and the Liberal League | 100 |
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