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ABBOTT, LYMAN (1835- )

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ABBOTT, LYMAN (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 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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