1910's Religion | America in the Making

Theological work

By: Lyman Abbott

Date: 1911

Source: Abbott, Lyman. America in the Making. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1911, 195–201.

About the Author: Lyman Abbott (1835–1922) was a Congregationalist minister, author, and editor. He was born on December 18, 1835, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and relocated to New York City with his family at the age of eight. After first practicing law, Abbott was ordained in 1860 and eventually became a leader in liberal Protestantism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He died on October 22, 1922.

Introduction

Lyman Abbott gave a series of lectures at Yale University on the responsibilities of American citizenship. These were published in 1911 in a book entitled America in the Making. One of Lyman's gifts, as demonstrated in this book, was the ability to promote liberal ideas while...