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07/17/07
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Harold O. J. Brown, John R. Richardson Professor of Theology and
Philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, North Carolina,
went home to be with the Lord July 8, 2007 at 8:25 pm. He was born July
6, 1933 in Tampa, Florida to Dr. Harold Ogden and Mary Bakas Brown. He
would have celebrated his 74th birthday this year.
Brown earned four degrees from Harvard University and Harvard Divinity
School. He received the Bachelor of Arts in Germanic languages and
biochemical sciences, the Bachelor of Divinity in theology, the Master
of Theology in church history and the Doctor of Philosophy in
Reformation studies. He also studied at the University of Marburg,
Germany, and the University of Vienna, Austria, and taught courses in
Basel, Switzerland, and Yeotmal, India.
In 1975, Brown founded the Christian Action Council with former United
States Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D. The Christian Action
Council was the leading evangelical pro-life action group and an
educational and service ministry, which he served as chairman until
1998. The Christian Action Council is currently known as Care Net, Inc.
He was the director of the Center on Religion and Society at the
Rockford Institute and taught in the International Seminar on
Jurisprudence and Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
Brown's areas of expertise included systematic theology; right-to-life
issues; ethics, especially ethical and family values; journalism, public
affairs; and political philosophy. He is a member of the American
Theological Society, and the Turnerschaft Saxonia Marburg.
Brown received several awards, including many for his pro-life work. He
received Fulbright and Danforth awards and was voted Faculty Member of
the Year at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he held the
Franklin Forman Chair of Christian Ethics and Theology and was professor
of biblical and systematic theology. He taught at Trinity as a visiting
professor in 1971 and 1975 and served as associate professor of
systematic theology from 1976 to 1983. After four years as a pastor in
Switzerland, Brown returned to the Trinity faculty in 1987. He joined
the faculty of Reformed Theological Seminary on its Charlotte, North
Carolina campus in the summer of 1998 and remained a vital part of the
community until his passing.
Brown served on the editorial staff of Human Life Review and
Christianity Today and served as contributing editor for Christianity
Today and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He was editor of
The Religion and Society Report and wrote numerous articles over the
last 40 years in such magazines as National Review, Eternity, Hemelios,
Human Life Review, and publications in Germany, Austria, and London. His
books include The Protest of a Troubled Protestant (Zondervan, 1969),
Christianity and the Class Struggle (Arlington House, 1970), Death
before Birth (Thomas Nelson, 1977), The Reconstruction of the Republic
(Arlington House, 1977), and Heresies: The Image of Christ in the Mirror
of Heresy and Orthodoxy from the Apostles to the Present. His most
recent books are Sensate Culture (Word, 1996) and Heresies: Heresy and
Orthodoxy in the History of the Church (Henderson, 1998)
<http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=33652> .
Brown and his wife, Grace, had two children, Cynthia Brown Erb and Peter
E.H. Brown. In his spare time, Brown enjoyed crew, skiing and
mountaineering.
Harold or 'Joe' as many of us called him was a rich blessing to RTS, not
only in his solid scholarship and classroom excellence but also in his
personal relationships and care for students, staff, and other faculty.
He had a European "dry wit" and a great sense of understated humor.
Even
though slowed by poor health in his later years, he was always
challenging in his teaching and tender in his thoughtfulness to others.
We will miss him but we rejoice in the heritage he left to us and in his
presence with our Savior.
*Article courtesy of ChristianObserver.net
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