Reformed Theological Seminary

John R. Richardson Professor of Theology and Philosophy

Harvard College, A.B.

Harvard Divinity School, B.D., Th.M.

Harvard University, Ph.D.

Dr. Harold O. J. Brown earned four degrees from Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School. He also studied at the University of Marburg, Germany, and the University of Vienna, Austria, and taught courses in Basel, Switzerland, and Yeotmal, India. With former United States Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D., Brown co-founded the Christian Action Council. He is the director of the Center on Religion and Society at the Rockford Institute and teaches in the International Seminar on Jurisprudence and Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. He taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1971, and 1975 to 1983. After four years as a pastor in Switzerland, Brown returned to Trinity in 1987 where he remained until joining RTS. He was voted Faculty Member of the Year in 1989. Dr. Brown has served on the editorial staff of Human Life Review and Christianity Today and currently serves as contributing editor for Christianity Today and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He is also editor of The Religion and Society Report and has has written numerous articles and several books, including The Sensate Culture and Heresies.

Selected Publications
Protest of a Troubled Protestant (Zondervan 1969)
Christianity and the Class Struggle (Arlington House 1970)
Death Before Birth (Thomas Nelson 1977)
Reconstruction of the Republic (Arlington House 1977)
Before the Crash: A Biblical Basis for Economics (Christian Studies Center - Memphis 1978)
War: Four Christian Views (B M H Books 1981)
Heresies: The Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and Orthodoxy from the Apostles to the Present
(Doubleday 1984)
Christian Vision: Man & State: Religion, Society Christian Vision: Man & State: Religion, Society &
the Constitution (Hillsdale College Press 1989)
Sensate Culture (Word 1996)

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