Littell, Franklin H(amlin)

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LITTELL, Franklin H(amlin)

LITTELL, Franklin H(amlin). American, b. 1917. Genres: Theology/Religion. Career: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, director of Lane Hall, 1944-49; Office of the U.S. High Commissioner, Germany, member of religious affairs staff, 1949-51, chief Protestant adviser, 1953-58; Boston University, MA, dean of chapel, 1951-53; Emory University, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, GA, professor of church history, 1958-60; Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, TX, professor of church history, 1960-62; Chicago Theological Seminary, IL, professor of church history, 1962-69; Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, president, 1966-69; Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, professor of religion, 1969-86. University of Washington, Walker-Ames Professor, 1976; Institute for Contemporary Jewry, corresponding faculty member, 1973-; Stockton College, Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor, 1989-91; Baylor University, Robert Foster Cherry Distinguished Visiting Professor, 1993-94; guest professor at universities. Publications: The Anabaptist View of the Church, 1952, 3rd ed. as The Origins of Sectarian Protestantism, 1964; The Free Church, 1957; Landgraf Philipp und die Toleranz:, 1957; The German Phoenix, 1960; A Tribute to Menno Simons, 1961; From State Church to Pluralism, 1962, rev. ed., 1971; The Church and the Body Politic, 1969; Wild Tongues: A Handbook of Social Pathology, 1969; The Crucifixion of the Jews, 1975; The Macmillan Atlas History of Christianity, 1976; (with I.G. Shur and M.E. Wolfgang) Reflections on the Holocaust, 1980; Selected Papers, 1981; (with M.S. Littell) A Pilgrim's Interfaith Guide to the Holy Land, 1981; (with A.L. Berger and H.G. Locke) What Have We Learned?, 1993; Historical Atlas of Christianity, 2001. EDITOR: Reformation Studies: Essays in Honor of Roland H. Bainton, 1962; Sermons to Intellectuals, 1963; (with H.G. Locke) The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust, 1974; Religious Liberties in the Crossfire of Creeds, 1978; A Half Century of Religious Dialogue, 1939-1989, 1989; Hyping the Holocaust, 1997. Address: PO Box 10, Merion Station, PA 19066-0010, U.S.A.

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