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- ↑ The Candler School of Theology: Sixty Years of Service, Boone M. Bowen, Emory University Press: Atlanta, Georgia, 1974. p. 15.
- ↑ The Candler School of Theology: Sixty Years of Service, Boone M. Bowen, Emory University Press: Atlanta, Georgia, 1974. p. 21.
- ↑ The Candler School of Theology: Sixty Years of Service, Boone M. Bowen, Emory University Press: Atlanta, Georgia, 1974. p. 27.
- ↑ The Candler School of Theology: Sixty Years of Service, Boone M. Bowen, Emory University Press: Atlanta, Georgia, 1974. p. 31.
- ↑ The Candler School of Theology: Sixty Years of Service, Boone M. Bowen, Emory University Press: Atlanta, Georgia, 1974. p. 31.