Harold O.J. Brown (1933–2007)

John D. Woodbridge, research professor of church history and the history of Christian thought at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, provides an overview of the professional life of his friend the late Professor Harold O.J. Brown, who passed away on Sunday, July 8, 2007. Over the years Dr. Brown held faculty positions at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois; Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Summer Institute in Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, as well as a variety of pastoral positions both in the U.S. and abroad. He authored Death Before Birth, The Reconstruction of the Republic, and Heresies. Excerpt:

"With former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Brown founded the Christian Action Council, one of the prominent evangelical pro-life action groups. Dr. Koop, Dr. Francis Schaeffer, and Brown took the lead in helping many evangelicals understand the high Christian stakes in protecting the lives of the unborn. Often working behind the scenes, Professor Brown did yeoman service in encouraging many evangelical Protestants to re-enter the public life of the nation as Christian activists."

Dr. Brown was the founder of CareNet, a pro-life group supporting a network of 1,090 pregnancy centers in North America. CareNet issued this statement on their founder.

(HT: JT)