Series I. Files Relating to the Dissertation Prospectus and Research Process, 1964-1969

Box 1

Books and Articles c. 1964-1969
Dissertation prospectus, 1965
Dissertation Bibliography and Correspondence, c. 1965-1969
The Idea: Christian Perfection, draft and revised version, 1965
Revisions and Additions c. 1964-1969

Series II. Research Notes and Supporting Documents, c. 1830s-1969

Box 2

Asa Mahan

Adrian College, Mahan at Adrian (and later)
Autobiography
Books [Location] and articles
Life in England
Life and Family
Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1964
Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1969
Notes on Out of Darkness into Light
Personality
President, after 1844
Resignation, 1850-1855
Trip to England and France
Work in the East
Years of Education

General Topics

Brewster H. Pomeroy, “The Magic of a Voice, Rochester Revivals of C.C.F.,” Rochester Historical Society Publica. Fund Series IV, 1925
Rochester Area
Fairchild, J.H., “The First President of Oberlin College,” Oberlin Review XVI (April 30, 1889)
Finney Chronology
Pellowe, W.C., “Asa Mahan: Sage of Adrian,” Michigan Christian Advocate XCI (June 11, 1964)
Rochester Convention (1841), Tracts on the Holiness Practicable to Christians in the Present Life, No.1
Materials on early Oberlin
Oberlin College in General
Educational Philosophy at Oberlin
Political Interest at Oberlin
Joint Education of the Sexes
The Oberlin Church
Oberlin and Congregationalism
Adventism
Abolition
Moral Reform
Health Reform
Frontier Religion
Revivalism
War and Peace
Cleveland, 1850-1855
Come-Outer Movement
Lewis Tappan Letter Books, 1843-1855
Keswick Movement (later)
Doctrine of Perfection (general)
Oberlin Views on XN Perfection
After 1850 Perfection
General Questions or Criticisms of OB. PERF.
Non-Theological Response to OBER. PERF.
Later Evaluation of OBER. PERF.
Other Perfectionisms
Perfectionism

Box 3

Theological Reaction to OBER. PERF.
Notes on Oberlin Evangelists (perfectionism)
Lane Seminary Faculty. “Statement of the Faculty Concerning the Late Difficulties in the Lane Sem.”
Statement of the Reasons which induced the students of Lane Theol. Sem. to dissolve their connection
Rankin, John, A Review of the Statements of the Faculty of Lane Seminary
Lyman, H., “Lane Seminary Rebels,” in Ballantine, Oberlin Jubilee, pp. 60–69
Notes on Lane Manuscripts [McCormical]
Cincinnati, 1831-1835

Box 4

Index cards containing bibliographic citations (author and subject), and a chronology of Asa Mahan’s life and writings, compiled 1964-1969 (4 index card boxes)

Series III. Writings (copies), 1835-1977, n.d.

Subseries 1. Writings by Asa Mahan, 1835-1883, n.d.

Box 5

Mahan, Asa, Letter to Ohio Anti-Slavery Convention, 1835
Mahan, Asa, Principles of Christian Union and Church Union and Church Fellowship, May 1936
Mahan, Asa, “Is Perfection in Holiness Attainable in this Life?” Oberlin Evangelist I (Nov. 1838)
Mahan, Asa, Physical and Moral Law Equally Obligatory, (Feb 12, 1839)
Mahan, Asa, Scriptural Doctrine of XN Perfection (Conclusion), 1839
Mahan, Asa, Abstract of a Course of Lectures in Mental and Moral Philosophy, 1840
Mahan, Asa, “The Doctrine of XN PERF. Explained and Defended,” AM. Biblical Repository 2nd ser IV, 1840
Mahan, Asa, (MSS Sermon) “Perfect Love Attainable in this Life” [pub. in the O.E. 1843 in three parts], 1843
Mahan, Asa, (Sermon) “Teachings of the Spirit,” Oberlin Evangelist V, 1843
Mahan, Asa, “The Spiritual Writings of Prof. Thomas C. Upham”
Mahan, Asa, (Sermon) “Christians Dead to the Law,” Oberlin Evangelist II (Sept 23, 1840)
Mahan, Asa, (Misc. Sermons from 1841-2) Later Made up the True Believer, 1841-42
Mahan, Asa, (Sermon) “A Word Fitly Spoken,” Oberlin Evangelist V (Oct 11, 1843)
Mahan, Asa, (Sermon) “Christian Admonition,” Oberlin Evangelist V (Oct 25, 1843)
Mahan, Asa, (Sermon) “Difficulties connected with the Doctrine of Imperfection,” Oberlin Evangelist V (June 7, 1843)
Mahan, Asa, Doctrine of the Will, 1845
Mahan, A., A System of Intellectual Philosophy “Table of Contents,” 1845
Mahan, Asa, “The Idea of Perfection,” Oberlin Quarterly Review I, 1845
Mahan, Asa, “Certain Fundamental Principles, Together with their Applications,” Oberlin Quarterly Review II (Nov. 1846)
Mahan, Asa, “The Biographical Remains of Rev. George Beecher,” Oberlin Quarterly Review I (May 1846)
Mahan, Asa, “Moral Law as Revealed in the Bible or the Manner in Which a System of Duty is there in Revealed,” Oberlin Quarterly Review II (Aug. 1846)
Mahan, Asa, Experience of President Mahan; in a letter to his wife, 1847
Mahan, Asa, “The Doctrine of Imperfection,” Oberlin Quarterly Review III (Aug. 1847)
Mahan, Asa, The True Believer, 1847
Mahan, Asa, “Idea of Retribution,” Oberlin Quarterly Review III (May 1848)
Mahan, Asa, “Principles of Church Discipline,” Oberlin Quarterly Review III (May 1848)
Mahan, Asa, “Sanctification,” Oberlin Quarterly Review III (Feb. 1848)
Mahan, Asa, The Science of Moral Philosophy, 1848
Mahan, Asa, “Brotherly Love,” Oberlin Quarterly Review IV (Jan. 1849)
Mahan, Asa, “Doctrine of Resurrection,” Oberlin Quarterly Review IV (April 1849)
Mahan, Asa, “Temperance and the Christian Church,” 1849
Mahan, Asa, “The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil,” Oberlin Quarterly Review IV (April 1849)
Mahan, Asa, The Relation of Christianity to the Freedom of Human Thought and Action, 1850
Mahan, Asa, Lectures on the Ninth of Romans, 1851
Mahan, Asa, Life Thoughts on the Rest of Faith, 1851
Mahan, Asa, et.al, Spiritualism or a Discussion on the Cause and Effect of the Phenomena, Attributed to the Spirits of Departed Human Beings, (Feb. 1855)
Mahan, Asa, Science of Logic, 1856
Mahan, Asa, Science of Natural Theology, 1867
Mahan, Asa, “Theism and Anti-Theism in their relations to Science,” 1872
Mahan, Asa, Promise of the Spirit, 1874
Mahan, Asa, Misunderstood Texts of Scripture, 1876
Mahan, Asa, “The Consequences of Neglect,” 1876
Mahan, Asa, The System of Mental Philosophy, 1882
Mahan, Asa, A Critical History of Philosophy, 1883
Notes from Mahan’s Notebook—Adrian College, n.d.
Laws and Regulations of Oberlin Col. Instit. (Introduction “Dear Pupils” by A. Mahan), n.d.
Mahan, Asa, “Character and Comparative Merits of the Old and New Systems of Liberal Education,” n.d.

Subseries 2. Writings by other authors (A-Z), 1837-1977, n.d.

Box 6

“Perfect Sanctification,” Bib. Rep. and Princeton Review XIV, 1842
The Philosophy of Christian Perfectionism, 1848
“Dr. Beecher on Perfectionism,” Oberlin Evangelist VII (Oct. 8, 1845)
Ahlstrom, Sydney, “The Scottish Philosophy and American Theology,” Church History XXIV (Sept. 1955)
Barbour, W.M., “The Oberlin Theology,” in Ballantine, Oberlin Jubilee, 1889
Boardman, G.N., A Hist. of New England Theology (Chapter VII “Oberlin Theology”), 1899
Brittan, S.B., Telegraph’s Answer to Rev. Asa Mahan, 1855
Childs, Ward, Five Sermons on Sanctification, 1837
Cleveland Presby, Exposition of the Peculiarities, Difficulties and Tendencies of Oberlin Perfectionism, 1840
Cochran, Samuel D., “Chambers on the Romans—Views of Sanctification,” Oberlin Quarterly Review I (May 1846)
Cowan, A.M., Oberlin Theology Contrasted with that of the Confession of Faith of the Presby Church, 1841
Cowles, Henry, “A Sermon on being filled with the Holy Ghost,” Tracts of Holiness, No. 4, 1848
Cowles, Henry, A Defense of Ohio Congregationalism and of Oberlin College in reply to Kennedy’s Plan of Union, 1856
Cowles, Henry, Holiness of Christians, 1840
Dresser, Amos, The Bible Against War, 1849
Duffield, George, “Doctrines of New School Presbyterian Church,” Bibliotheca Sacra XX, 1863
Eaton, E.D., “Asa Mahan,” Dict. of Am. Biography, n.d.
Eisenchiml, Otto, The Hidden Face of the Civil War. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrils, 1961
Fairchild, James H., Oberlin: The Colony and the College (Ch. IV “Early Spirit + Thought + Life”), 1883
Fairchild, James H., “The Doctrine of Sanctification at Oberlin,” Congregational Quart. XVIII, 1876
Finney, Charles. G., Lectures to Professing Christians, n.d.
Finney, Charles. G., “Recent Discussion in the Subject of Entire Stratification in this Life,” Oberlin Quarterly Review II (May 1847)
Fisher, George Park, History of Christian Doctrine, New York: Scribners, 1896
Fletcher, Robert S., “Bread and Doctrine at Oberlin,” Ohio State Archeol. and Hist. Quart. XLIX, 1940
Fletcher, Robert S., “Going West to College in the Thirties,” Oberlin College Library Bulletin II, 1930
Fletcher, Robert S., “The Pastoral Theology of Charles G. Finney,” Ohio. Presby. Hist. Soc. Proceedings III (June 1941)
Flew, R. Newton, The Idea of Perfection in Christian Theology, 1934
Folsom, N.S., “Review of Mahan on XN Perfection,” AM. Biblical Repository, 2nd ser. II, 1839
Gaddis, Merril E., “Religious Ideas and Attitudes in the Early Frontier,” Church History, n.d.
Gaddis, Merril E., AN PERF. IN AM., 1954
Hammond, H.L., “The First Decade,” in Ballantine, Oberlin Jubilee, pp.192-206
Hertzog, Lucy Stone, “The Rise of Homeopathy,” Ohio State Archeol. and Hist. Quart. XLIX, 1940
Hodge, Charles, Systematic Theology, 1873
Hodge, Charles, “Finney’s Lecture on Systematic Theology,” Bib. Rep. and Princeton Rev. XIX, 1847
Leonard, D.L., “The Story of Oberlin,” Boston and Chicago: Pilgrim Press, 1898
Lord, John C., “Finney’s Sermons on Sanctification, and Mahan on XN Per.,” Bib. Rep. and Princeton Rev. XIII, 1841
Madden, E., “Oberlin’s First Philosopher” (typescript), n.d.
Morgan, J., “The Gist of the Holy Ghost,” Oberlin Quarterly Review I (Aug. 1845)
Parker, John, The Theory of Entire Sanctification, 1849
Peck, G., “XN PERF,” Methodist Quarterly Review XXIII, 1841
Platt, F., “Perfection,” Encycl. of Rel. + Ethics, 1917
Pond, E., “Christian Perfection,” AM. Biblical Repository, 2nd ser I, 1839

Box 7

Pope, W.B., A Compendium of Christian Theology, 3 vols., New York: Phillips + Hunt, 1879
Smith, Delazon, Oberlin Unmasked, n.d.
Swing, Albert T., “President Finney and an Oberlin Theology,” Bibliotheca Sacra LVII, 1900
Warfield, Benjamin B., i, 2 vols., New York: Oxford, 1939
Williston, Seth, Lectures on Moral Imperfection of Christians, 1846
Woods, L., “Examination of the Doctrine of PERF. as held by Rev. Asa Mahan,” AM. Bib. Repository, 2nd ser. V, 1841
Wright, George F., “Dr. Hodge’s Misrepresentation of President Finney’s System of Theology,” Bibliotheca Sacra XXXIII, 1876
Wright, George F., “President Finney’s System of Theology in its relation to the so-called New Eng. Theology,” Bibliotheca Sacra XXXIV, 1877
Wright, W.E.C., “Oberlin’s contribution to Ethics,” Bibliotheca Sacra LVII, 1900
Zikmund, Barbara Brown, “Asa Mahan and Oberlin Perfectionism,” Asbury Seminarian (Oct. 1977)
Zorbaugh, Charles L., “From Lane to Oberlin—an Exodus Extraordinary,” Ohio Presby. Hist. Soc. Proceedings II, 1940

Series IV. Non-Textual, 1966, n.d.

Photographs of Asa Mahan’s tombstone and buildings in Eastborne, England, (8 photos), 1966
Photograph and four illustrations (copies) of Asa Mahan, n.d.
Postcards (3) and drawings (2) of Oberlin buildings, n.d.