Noted theologian, ecumenist and former CHRISTIAN CENTURY editor-at-large Robert McAfee Brown died September 4 in a nursing home near his summer house in Heath, Massachusetts

Christian Century, Sept 12, 2001

Noted theologian, ecumenist and former CHRISTIAN CENTURY editor-at-large Robert McAfee Brown died September 4 in a nursing home near his summer house in Heath, Massachusetts. He was 81. Brown taught at Amherst College, Stanford University, Union Theological Seminary in New York and the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.

He wrote 28 books, ranging from a Sunday school primer titled The Bible Speaks to You to defenses of the liberation theology movement in Latin America. Brown gave a voice to a generation of mainline Christians who fought for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. He was jailed as a freedom rider, arrested as a war protester and, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, as a hunger striker against nuclear weapons. Brown is survived by his wife, Sydney, a labor activist and teacher.