evangelical theologian (1933-2007)
When the world stops booing the church and begins to applaud it, its enthusiasm ought to arouse the Christian's suspicion.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
Christian faith must be personal in the sense that each person individually understands the historic faith and personally commits himself to it, but not in the sense that he decides what it should be.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
"The Language of Life"
The church is not a religious club for the morally superior, but a community of sinners saved by grace.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
"The Sensate Culture"
The Christian church is not a 'safe place' where one can escape from the world, but a 'dangerous place' where one must confront the world.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
Heresies
The most dangerous enemies of Christianity are not the atheists, but those who claim to be Christians but deny the essential truths of the faith.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
Heresies
A nontheological faith cannot explain itself, but a too theological faith loses contact with the reason for its existence.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
Heresies
If we want our worship, or attempts at worship, to mean anything, we have to strive to conform it to the nature and will of God, and not to the mood or taste of the century.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
The Protest of a Troubled Protestant
The Bible is the Word of God written in the words of men.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
Heresies
The Bible is not a book of science, but it is a book that has scientific implications, and when science is properly understood, it supports the Bible.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures
Christianity is not primarily a religion of morality, but a religion of grace.
HAROLD O. J. BROWN
"The Sensate Culture"