Charles Reynolds Brown (October 1, 1862 – November 28, 1950) was an American Congregational

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man and educator, born in

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, W. Va. He graduated at the

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in 1883 and studied

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. He lectured at various times at Leland Stanford,

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, and Columbia universities, and was

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of the First Congregational Church at Oakland, Cal., from 1896 to 1911. In the latter year he became

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of the

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. He wrote: * ''Two Parables'' (1898) * ''The Main Points'' (1899) * ''The Social Message of the Modern Pulpit'' (1906) * ''The Strange Ways of God, a Study of the Book of Job'' (1908) * ''The Gospel of Good Health'' (1908) * ''Faith and Health'' (1910) * ''The Cap and Gown'' (1910) * ''The Modern Man's Religion'' (1911) * ''The Quest of Life and Other Addresses'' (1913) * ''Living Again'' (

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, 1920) * '' Lincoln The Greatest Man of the Nineteenth Century'' (1922) * ''Ten Short Stories from the Bible'' (1925) * '' My Own Yesterdays'' * '' Being Made Over'' (1939)

Bibliography

* Scott Langston, "Exodus in Early Twentieth Century America: Charles Reynolds Brown and Lawrence Langner," in Michael Lieb, Emma Mason and Jonathan Roberts (eds), ''The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible'' (Oxford, OUP, 2011), 433–446.

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* * * Yale University faculty American religious writers People from Oakland, California People from Bethany, West Virginia University of Iowa alumni American Congregationalist ministers Congregationalist writers American male non-fiction writers 1862 births 1950 deaths Boston University School of Theology alumni {{US-reli-bio-stub