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:
- 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.
- 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.
- He studied as a Princeton University exchange fellow in Germany from 1985-1987.
- 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.
- 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)
