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Austin Phelps Austin Phelps (1820 -1890), was a Congregational clergyman who was also a very popular author. He was born in born in West Brookfield, Mass, the son of Rev. Eliakim and Sarah Adams, and a descendant of old Massachusetts English settler stock. Phelps then went to various educational institutions. In Philadelphia, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1837, at the mere age of 17. He studied at Union Theological Seminary and the Yale Divinity School, but interestingly, although he did not complete his theological course, he was allowed to preach by the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1840. In 1842, he was ordained as pastor of the Pine Street Congregational Church, Boston. After six years as pastor, in 1848 he took on a position he would hold for the next 30 years, that of professor of sacred rhetoric and homiletics at Andover Seminary. Phelps was elected its president in 1869. He retired due to poor health, and the remainder of his life was spent in semi-invalidism, although he was able to do much writing on religious subjects. The New Birth More information on The New Birth |
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