Background
Brown, William Adams was born on December 29, 1865 in New York, New York. Son of John Crosby and Mary E. (Adams) Brown.
Brown, William Adams was born on December 29, 1865 in New York, New York. Son of John Crosby and Mary E. (Adams) Brown.
Preparatory education, St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1886, A.M., 1888, Doctor of Philosophy., 1901. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1890.
University of Berlin, 1890-1892. Doctor of Divinity, Union College, 1903, Yale, 1907, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1922, University of Oxford, England, 1937. S.T.D., Columbia University, 1937.
3 sons, 1 daughter (deceased). Ordained to Presbyterian ministry, 1893. Instructor, 1892-1895, provisional professor, 1895-1898, Roosevelt professor systematic theology, 1898-1930, research professor in applied theology, 1930-1936, now emeritus, Union Theological Seminary.
Author: Musical Instruments and Their Homes, 1888. The Essence of Christianity, 1902. Christian Theology in Outline, 1906.Life of Morris K. Jesup, 1910. The Christian Hope, 1912. Modern Theology and the Preaching of the Gospel, 1914.Is Christianity Practicable?, 1916. Modern Missions in the Far East, 1917. The Church in America, 1922.Imperialistic Religion and the Religion of Democracy, 1923. The Creative Experience, 1923. The Life of Prayer in a World of Science, 1926.The Quiet Hour, 1926. Beliefs that Matter, 1928. Pathways to Certainty, 1930.God at Work, 1933
Ministerial Education in America, Volume 1, 1934. The Church, Catholic and Protestant, 1935. Finding God in a New World, 1935.Church and State in Contemporary America, 1936. The Minister—His World and His Work, 1937. The Case for Theology in the University, 1938.A Teacher and His Times, 1940. A Creed for Free Men, 1941. The New Order in the Church, 1943.Contributor to Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible, Hastings’ Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Political Science Quarterly, etc.
Member Yale Corporation, 1917-1934. Member Committee of Fourteen (chairman 1916-1918). Member administrative committee, and department chairman research and education, Federal Council Churches of Christ in America since 1924, chairman department of relations with chs. abroad since 1936.
Member Board of Home Missions of Presbyterian Church, 1910-1923. Member continuation committee universal Christian Council for Life and Work. Member continuation committee and Executive Committee, World Conference on Faith and Order.
Member Commision on Higher Education, India, 1930-1931. Member society Biblical Literature and Exegesis, American Philosophical society, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Clubs: Century, Yale, American Alpine. Member editorial board, Constructive Quarterly.
Married Helen Gilman Noyes, March 30, 1892 (she died December 15, 1942).