Background
Aubrey, Edwin Ewart was born on March 19, 1896 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Edwin and Elizabeth Jane (Evans) Aubrey.
Aubrey, Edwin Ewart was born on March 19, 1896 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Edwin and Elizabeth Jane (Evans) Aubrey.
Came to the United States, 1913, naturalized, 1918. Preparatory education, public schools, Wales and Taunton School, England. Bachelor of Philosophy, Bucknell U., 1919, Doctor of Divinity, 1939.
Master of Arts, University of Chicago 1921, D.B., 1922, Doctor of Philosophy, 1926.
Associate professor of Bible, Union Theological College, Chicago, 1920-1922. Instructor, sociology and Bible, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1922-1923. Assistant professor sociology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1923-1925.
Associate professor sociology, 1925-1926, associate professor Biblical literature, Vassar College, 1926-1927, professor, 1927-1929. Professor Christian theology and ethics, University of Chicago, 1929-1944. Chairman department 1933-1935 chairman theological field, 1935-1944.
President Crozer Theological Seminary, and professor Christian social philosophy, 1944-1949. Professor religious thought, University of Pennsylvania, since 1949. Cole lecturer, Vanderbilt University, 1940.
President University of Chicago Settlement, 1941-1944. Visiting lecturer in ethics, California Institute Technology, 1942. Visiting professor of philosophy of religion, Union Theological Seminary, summers, 1942, 43, 45, 46, 49.
Ingersoll lecturer Harvard, 1949.
Christian discipleship is a commitment to work for social and political change of the community you live in.
The erroneous notion that one gender must strive against another cannot be accepted.
Served as corporal, United States of America Ambulance Service, 1917-1919. Trustee Crozer Theological Seminary, 1944-1950, Bucknell University, 1944-1948. Fellow National Council Religion in Higher Education.
Member American Society of Church History, American Theological Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Upsilon.
Married Gladys Marsh Topping, August 11, 1923. Children: Nancy Jean, Donald Topping.