Charles Reynolds Brown

Charles Reynolds Brown
Born(1862-10-01)October 1, 1862
Bethany, West Virginia, US
DiedNovember 28, 1950(1950-11-28) (aged 88)
New Haven, Connecticut, US
Education
OccupationsCleric, educator

Charles Reynolds Brown (October 1, 1862 – November 28, 1950) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator, born in Bethany, West Virginia. He graduated at the University of Iowa in 1883 and studied theology in Boston University. He lectured at various times at Leland Stanford, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia universities, and was pastor of the First Congregational Church at Oakland, California, from 1896 to 1911. In the latter year he became dean of the Yale Divinity School.

Brown was a guest preacher at Central Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island.[1]

He died at his home in New Haven, Connecticut on November 28, 1950.[2]

Works

  • Two Parables (1898)
  • The Main Points (1899)
  • The Social Message of the Modern Pulpit (1906)
  • The Strange Ways of God, a Study of the Book of Job (1908)
  • The Gospel of Good Health (1908)
  • Faith and Health (1910)
  • The Cap and Gown (1910)
  • The Modern Man's Religion (1911)
  • The Quest of Life and Other Addresses (1913)
  • Living Again (Ingersoll Lecture, 1920)
  • Lincoln The Greatest Man of the Nineteenth Century (1922)
  • Ten Short Stories from the Bible (1925)
  • My Own Yesterdays
  • Being Made Over (1939)

References

  1. ^ A Paper Presented at the Celebration of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Central Congregational Church. Central Congregational Church. March 10, 1927.
  2. ^ "C. R. Brown Dies; Retired Dean of Yale". Hartford Courant. New Haven, Connecticut (published November 29, 1950). AP. November 28, 1950. p. 5. Archived from the original on February 28, 2026. Retrieved February 27, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.

Further reading

  • Scott Langston, "Exodus in Early Twentieth Century America: Charles Reynolds Brown and Lawrence Langner," in Michael Lieb, Emma Mason and Jonathan Roberts (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible (Oxford, OUP, 2011), 433–446.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Charles Reynolds Brown". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.


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