Sunday, April 9, 2017

Who is William P. Brown?

William P. Brown is the guest speaker for Episode 18 of the Covenant Bible Study on the Psalms. Here are some quick facts about him:
  1. He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia.
  2. Dr. Brown earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Whitman College in Washington, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and Doctor of Philosophy in Old Testament Studies from Emory University. 
  3. He studied as a Princeton University exchange fellow in Germany from 1985-1987.
  4. He is the author of several books, including Wisdom's Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature (2014), The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder (2010), Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament (1996), and many others. 
  5.  He was a founding member of Earth Covenant Ministry, which later became part of Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, whose mission is to engage "communities of faith in stewardship of Creation as a direct expression of our faithfulness and as a religious response to global climate change, resource depletion, environmental injustice, pollution, and other disruptions in Creation." (GIPL: Connecting Faith, Community and Planet)

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