Service at Bond Chapel Remembers Don Browning
Divinity School Dean Margaret Mitchell led the Divinity School and the Disciples Divinity House Board of Trustees in remembering Don Browning at a service in Bond Chapel on Saturday, October 23, 2010. Tributes were given by Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics; William Schweiker, Director of the Martin Marty Center and Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics; Kristine A. Culp, Associate Professor of Theology and Dean of the Disciples Divinity House; and Elizabeth Marquardt, a former student. The tributes will be published in Criterion, a publication of the Divinity School.
Don S. Browning, the Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Ethics and the Social Sciences in the Divinity School, studied the influence of religion on American family life, as well as the intersection of psychology, the social sciences, moral theory, and religion. From 1977-83, he was the Dean of the Disciples Divinity House, and he served as a trustee until his death. He died June 3 at his home in Hyde Park at the age of 76. The family asks that memorial contributions be made to the Browning Family Fund at the Disciples Divinity House.