Background
Jerald Carl Brauer was born on September 16, 1921, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States. He was the son of Carl L. and Anna Mae (Linde) Brauer.
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Brauer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carthage College in 1943.
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Brauer received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in 1945.
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Brauer received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1948.
Jerald Carl Brauer was born on September 16, 1921, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States. He was the son of Carl L. and Anna Mae (Linde) Brauer.
Brauer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carthage College in 1943, a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in 1945 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1948.
Brauer was an instructor of the church history and history of Christian thought at the Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1948 to 1950. He also worked as an assistant professor of the history of Christianity at the federated theological faculty of the University of Chicago from 1950 to 1954, then he became an associate professor. This post he held from 1954 to 1959. During this period, from 1955 to 1960, he also was a dean of federated theological faculty, as well as a dean of division school from 1960 to 1970.
In 1961, Brauer was a visiting lecturer at the University of Frankfurt, and then, in 1966, at the University of Tokyo. From 1962 to 1968, Brauer was a member of board theological education at Lutheran Church in America at the president board. Brauer was also a fellow of the Center for Policy Studies. From 1969 to 1978, he held the post of consultant at the New York Education Department.
He was also a visiting fellow at the Center Study Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California, in 1972, and then in 1974. Brauer was a board director at Rockefeller Brothers Theological Fellowship Program from 1956 to 1970, Carthage College from 1958 to 1962, as well as at Trustee Augustana College from 1964 to 1966. He was also an official delegated observer at World Council Churches, 3d, 4th sessions, and at Vatican Council II. From 1979 to 1983, he was a board member at Council on Religion and International Affairs.
Author: Protestantism in America, 1953, Basic Question for the Christian Scholar, 1954, (with J. Pelikan) The Lutheran Reformation, 1955. Editor: (Paul Tillich) The Future of Religions, 1966, My Travel Diary, 1936, (Paul Tillich), 1970, Westminster Dictionary of Church History, 1971. General editor: Essays in Divinity, 7 vols, since 1967.Editor vols. 2 and 5: Religion in the American Revolution, 1976, The Lively Experiment Continued, 1987. Editor: (with Martin E. Marty) The Chicago Studies in the History of American Religion, 21 vols., 1991.
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On March 18, 1945, Brauer married Muriel I. Nelson. They had three children: Christopher, Marian and Thomas.