OUR LIBERAL MOVEMENT IN THEOLOGY CHIEFLY AS SHOWN IN RECOLLECTIONS OF THE NEW ENGLAND BEING A CLOSING COURSE OF LECTURES GIVEN IN THE BY JOSEPH HENRY ALLEN Lecturer on Ecclesiastical History in Harvard University HONORARY MEMBER OF THE (UNITARIAN) SUPREME CONSISTORY OF TRANSYL- BOSTON ROBERTS BROTHERS 1882 PREFATORY NOTE. THE following correspondence sufficiently explains the circumstances which have led to the publi DIVINITY SCHOOL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, May 10, 1882. DEAR SIR,- We, the undersigned, wishing to possess the Lectures on the "Liberal Movement in Theology," recently delivered before the Divinity School of Harvard University, in a more permanent form, express our earnest desire for the publication of the same. Very truly yours, H. PRICE COLLIER, JOHN A. TUNIS, CHARLES F. RUSSELL, Committee for the School. CAMBRIDGE, May 14, 1882. MY DEAR FRIENDS, - Your very kind letter gives me the opportunity, which I am delighted to embrace, of leaving with you a memento of the four years I have passed, most agreeably, in connection with this School. Trusting that you may all have the privilege of doing your share in that noble and most interesting work, of which I have attempted to trace some of the antecedents and conditions, I am, with the sincerest regard, Your friend, J. H. ALLEN. |