Roland Herbert Bainton Papers, 1886-1988

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Roland Herbert Bainton Papers, 1886-1988

Extensive correspondence, writings, notes, andillustrations document Bainton's roles as lecturer, researcher, artist, worldtraveler, friend to the oppressed, ardent pacifist, teacher, and mentor.Bainton was born in England and emigrated first to Canada in 1898 and then tothe United States in 1902. He taught church history at Yale Divinity Schoolfrom 1920 to 1962, serving as Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical Historyfrom 1936. Bainton wrote prolifically and was an authority on Luther and theReformation, Christian attitudes toward war, Congregational history, and thehistory of the Yale Divinity School.

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