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Pastoral Psychol (2011) 60:16
DOI 10.1007/s11089-010-0319-2
Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore & Herbert Anderson
Published online: 16 October 2010# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Abstract This tribute adapts words originally written to honor Don S. Browning, one of the foremost pastoral and practical theologians and ethicists of his time, on the occasion of his death on June 3, 2010. The tribute appeared in the funeral worship bulletin on June 10, 2010 at Hyde Park Union Church in Chicago and was revised for a newsletter of a major educational institution with which he had many significant relationships and responsibilities (The Disciples Divinity House of the University of Chicago Bulletin 80, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2010); used with permission). Although we embellished the tribute slightly, we did not change its main intent: It captures the remarkable depth and breath of Brownings scholarly achievement, the mark he made on public and academic discussion, and the extent to which he is missed by his colleagues, friends, and family.
Keywords Don Browning . Psychology . Culture . Religion . Ethics . Practical theology . Pastoral theology . Pastoral care . Families . Generativity
Generativity: a concern for establishing and guiding the next generation that grows out of optimism about humanity (Erikson 1950).
The vocational and intellectual life and work of Don S. Browning, the Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Ethics and the Social Sciences at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, spanned five decades, several continents, and multiple disciplines. Trained in theology at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, he was equally conversant in modern psychology, philosophy, ethics, sociology, and in the last decade of his life, family
B. J. Miller-McLemore (*)
Pastoral Theology, The Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USAe-mail: [email protected]
H. Anderson
Practical Theology, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, 2770 Marin Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94708, USA e-mail: [email protected]
Tribute to Don S. Browning (19342010)
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law. Over his teaching and research career in practical theology, theological ethics, and the social sciences, he stood at the forefront of three major cultural discussions of import to the wider societyreligion and psychiatry, religion and the family, and religion and law. His scholarship falls into three distinct bodies of literaturebooks on care...