The Theology of Charles Carroll Everett

It is related that Dr. Everett was once asked by the professor of systematics in another institution what subjects he found it possible to discuss in a non-denominational school of theology. The question was a silly one, for it assumed that in such a school no teacher gives utterance to the particul...

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Main Author: Fenn, William W. (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1910
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1910, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-23
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