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 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. 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 served on the editorial staff of Human Life Review and Christianity Today and as contributing editor for Christianity Today and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He was also editor of The Religion and Society Report andwrote numerous articles and several books, including The Sensate Culture and Heresies.