- Robert McAfee Brown
Robert McAfee Brown (born
28 May 1920 Carthage, Illinois , died4 September 2001 near Heath,Massachusetts ) was an Americantheologian and activist.Brown earned a
bachelor's degree fromAmherst College in 1943 and was ordained as aPresbyterian minister in 1944. Brown earned a bachelor of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1945 and served as aUnited States Navy chaplain from 1945 to 1946. The recipient of aFulbright program grant, Brown studied atUniversity of Oxford before completing a doctorate in the philosophy of religion atColumbia University in 1951. He married Sydney Thomson, and had four children.Brown taught initially at his alma mater Union Theological Seminary before accepting an appointment as Professor of Religion at
Stanford University in 1962. There he became an international leader incivil rights , ecumenical and social justice causes. Brown campaigned against U.S. involvement in theVietnam War and was a co-founder of the group Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam. He left Stanford in 1975 to return to Union as Professor of World Christianity and Ecumenism, but quickly found his new post unfulfilling. He resigned and moved back to the Bay Area, where he taught at thePacific School of Religion in Berkeley until his retirement in 1984. Brown was the author of 29 books. He died on September 4, 2001, being survived by his wife.Published Works
* "
Frontiers for the Church Today " (1974)
* "Making Peace in the Global Village " (1981)
* "" (1984)
* "The Bible Speaks to You " (1985)
* "" (1986)
* "" (1988)
* "" (1989)
* "" (1992)
* "" (1993)
* "" (2005)External links
* [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/september19/brownobit919.html Robert McAfee Brown obituary]
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