Brown, William Adams

BROWN, WILLIAM ADAMS: Presbyterian; b. in New York City Dec. 29, 1865. He was educated at Yale University (B.A., 1886), Union Theological Seminary (1890), and the University of Berlin (1890–92). He was successively instructor in church history (1892–93) and systematic theology (1893–95) in Union Theological Seminary, where he was provisional professor of systematic theology from 1895 to 1898, and has been Roosevelt professor of the same subject since 1898. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and has written, in addition to contributions to Hastings's Dictionary of the Bible, Musical Instruments and their Homes (New York, 1888); The Essence of Christianity (1892); Christ the Vitalizing Principle of Christian Theology (1898); and Christian Theology in Outline (1907).