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| Title | Recent Inquiries in Theology: By Eminent English Churchmen : Being "Essays and Reviews" |
| Editor | Frederic Henry Hedge |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Walker, Wise, 1860 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2006 |
| Length | 480 pages |
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