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ASA MAHAN (1799-1889) was America's foremost Christian educator, reformer, philosopher, and pastor. He was founding president of two colleges and one university, where he was able to inspire numerous reforms, publish authoritative philosophical texts, and promote powerful revivals like his close associate Charles Finney. He led the way on all important fronts while being severely persecuted. He introduced the new curriculum later adopted by Harvard, was the first to instruct and grant liberal college degrees to white and colored women, advised Lincoln during the Civil War, and among many other remarkable achievements, was a father to the early evangelical and holiness movements.Mahan, Asa is the author of 'Science of Natural Theology; or God the Unconditioned Cause, and God the Infinite and Perfect As Revealed in Creation ', published 2005 under ISBN 9781932370973 and ISBN 1932370978.
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