| 词条 | Luther Tracy Townsend |
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Reverend Luther Tracy Townsend (September 27, 1838 - 1922) was a professor at Boston University and an author of theological and historical works. BiographyHe was born on September 27, 1838 in Orono, Maine to Luther K. Townsend and Mary True Call. His father died on November 16, 1839 and his mother took the family to New Hampshire. He started work at the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad in 1850. He graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1859. He then attended Andover Theological Seminary and graduated in 1862. He enlisted as a private in the 16th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in 1862 during the American Civil War. He was ordained by the Methodist church, in 1864,. On September 27, 1865 he married Laura C. Huckins. She was the daughter of David T. Huckins and Sarah F. White of Watertown, Massachusetts.[1][2] Townsend was a Christian creationist. He attacked evolution and defended the first chapters of Genesis in his books Evolution or Creation (1896), Adam and Eve (1904) and Collapse of Evolution (1905).[3] He was a supporter of William Menzies Alexander's research on demonic possession.[4] Publications
References1. ^{{cite encyclopedia |author= |editor= |encyclopedia=Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans |title=Luther Tracy Townsend |url= http://bio19c.com/-biography792_luther_tracy_townsend_(1838-) |isbn= |pages= |quote=| year=1904| accessdate=2013-11-19 }} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Townsend, Luther Tracy }}2. ^{{cite encyclopedia |author= |editor= |encyclopedia=Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women|year= 1902 |title=Luther Tracy Townsend |url=http://bio19c.com/-biography792_luther_tracy_townsend_(1838-) |isbn= |pages= |quote= | accessdate=2013-11-19 }} 3. ^Numbers, Ronald L. (1995). Antievolutionism Before World War I. Garland Publishing. p. 10. {{ISBN|0-8153-1802-2}} 4. ^Townsend, Luther Tracy. (1903). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3154356 Reviewed Work: Demonic Possession in the New Testament. Its Relations, Historical, Medical, and Theological by Wm. Menzies Alexander]. The American Journal of Theology 7 (1): 147-149. 5 : 1838 births|1922 deaths|American Christian creationists|American Christian writers|Dartmouth College alumni |
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