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Lyman Abbott 1835-1922, American clergyman and editor, b. Roxbury, Mass., son of Jacob Abbott. He was ordained a minister in 1860 and was pastor in several churches before succeeding Henry Ward Beecher at the Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, in 1888. With Beecher he had begun in 1876 to edit the Christian Union, the name of which he changed in 1893 to the Outlook. He championed a modern rational outlook in American Christianity. His works include The Theology of an Evolutionist (1897), Henry Ward Beecher (1903), and Reminiscences (rev. ed. 1923).

Bibliography: See biography by I. V. Brown (1953, repr. 1970).

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Abbott, Lyman (1835–1922), son of Jacob Abbott, was the successor of Henry Ward Beecher both in the pulpit of his Plymouth Church (Congregational) in Brooklyn and as editor of The Outlook (originally The Christian Union). He was a leader of the modern rational outlook upon religion, opposing ultra‐refined theological controversy and championing scientific views such as the reconciliation of the Darwinian theory with Christianity. His books include Christianity and Social Problems (1896), The Theology of an Evolutionist (1897), Henry Ward Beecher (1903), Reminiscences (1915), and What Christianity Means to Me (1921).

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