Content area
Full Text
Many readers of this journal will have known Harold O. J. (Joe) Brown. His passing after a long fight with cancer, on July 8, 2007, at the age of 74, leaves a chasm not only in the hearts of those who loved him, but also in the work of bioethics.
At the time of his death, Harold O. J. Brown was professor emeritus of biblical and systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, where he taught the ethics of biomedicine long before the neologism 'bioethics' had taken root in the culture. He taught at Trinity as a visiting professor in 1971 and 1975 and served as associate professor of systematic theology from 1976 to 1983. After four years as a pastor in Switzerland, Brown returned to the Trinity faculty in 1987, where he taught full-time until 1999. While...