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4 unusual facts about George Dering Wolff


George Dering Wolff

The elder Wolff and his son were staunch followers of John Williamson Nevin, who in 1843 began to develop in their sect a system of theology which, whilst bitterly opposing Catholicism, held Christ's Church to be a living organism and sought to restore certain teaching of Christ repudiated by the Protestant Reformation (see G. D. Wolff's article "The Mercersburg Movement" in "American Catholic Quarterly", 1878).

George Dering Wolff (b. at Martinsburg, West Virginia, 25 August 1822; d. at Norristown, Pennsylvania, 29 January 1894) was an American Protestant minister, later after a conversion an editor of Catholic publications.

George Wolff

George Dering Wolff (1822–1894), American Protestant minister, later after a conversion an editor of Catholic publications

James Andrew Corcoran

In 1876 the American Catholic Quarterly Review was founded, and Corcoran was made chief editor, assisted by George Dering Wolff.



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