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LYMAN ABBOTT (1835- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 27 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABBOTT (1835- )  , See also:American divine and author, was See also:born at See also:Roxbury, See also:Massachusetts, on the 18th of See also:December 1835, the son of See also:Jacob See also:Abbott . He graduated at the University of New See also:York in 1853, studied See also:law, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1856; but soon abandoned the legal profession, and, after studying See also:theology with his See also:uncle, J . S . C . Abbott, was ordained a See also:minister of the Congregational See also:Church in 186o . He was pastor of a church in Terre Haute, See also:Indiana, in 186o-1865, and of the New See also:England Church in New York See also:City in 1865-1869 . From 1865 to 1868 he was secretary of the American See also:Union (Freedman's) See also:Commission . In 1869 he resigned his pastorate to devote him-self to literature . He was an See also:associate editor of Harper's See also:Magazine, was editor of the Illustrated See also:Christian Weekly, and was co-editor (1876-1881) of The Christian Union with See also:Henry See also:Ward See also:Beecher, whom he succeeded in 1888 as pastor of See also:Plymouth Church, See also:Brooklyn . From this pastorate he resigned ten years later . From 1881 he was editor-in-See also:chief of The Christian Union, renamed The Outlook in 1893; this periodical reflected his efforts toward social reform, and, in theology, a liberality, humanitarian and nearly unitarian . The latter characteristics marked his published See also:works also .

His works include Jesus of See also:

Nazareth (1869) ; Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament (4 vols., 1875) ; A Study in Human Nature (1885); See also:Life of See also:Christ (1894); See also:Evolution of See also:Christianity (See also:Lowell Lectures, 1896) ; The Theology of an Evolutionist (1897) ; Christianity and Social Problems (1897) ; Life and Letters of See also:Paul (1898) ; B.D.S.M . Bene de se merenti . B.F . See also:Bona femina, Bona fides, Bona See also:fortuna, Bonum factum . B.F . Bona femina, Bona filia . B.H . Bona hereditaria, Bonorum heres . B.I . Bonum judicium . B.I.I . See also:Boni judicis judicium .

B.M . Beatae memoriae, Bene merenti . B.N . Bona nostra, Bonum nomen . BN.H.I . Bona hic invenies . B.P . Bona paterna, Bonorum potestas, Bonum publicum . B.Q . Bene quiescat, Bona quaesita . B.RP.N . Bono reipublicae natus .

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