Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Study Guides

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Identifier: GTM-090731

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Scope and Contents

Teaching materials related to the philosophy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin collected by Bernard Brown and predominantly created by the Association pour l'Enseignement de la Synthèse de la Connaissance (A.P.E.S.C., or the Association for the Teaching of Knowledge Synthesis).

Dates

Creation: 1970s

Conditions Governing Access

Most manuscripts collections at the Georgetown University Booth Family Center for Special Collections are open to researchers; however, restrictions may apply to some collections. Collections stored off site require a minimum of three days for retrieval. For use of all manuscripts collections, researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections in advance of any visit.

Conditions Governing Use

Researchers are solely responsible for determining the copyright status of the materials being used, establishing who the copyright owner is, locating the copyright owner, and obtaining permission for intended use.

Biographical Note

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Bernard J. Brown (1935-2020) was a professor of medical spirituality and ethics at the Georgetown University School of Nursing in the early 1990s and was a scholar of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Brown was born in St. Louis to Charles (1910-1958) and Martha Wehner Brown (1917-2004) and grew up with eight siblings, attending St. Louis University High School before entering the Missouri Province of the Society of Jesus at the St. Stanislaus novitiate in Florissant (1953-1957). He pursued philosophical studies in Munich (1958-1960), before returning to the St. Louis area for his regency (1961-1963). His theology studies followed at St. Mary’s College in Kansas (1964-1967), where he was ordained in 1966.

Brown completed his tertianship at Abdij Drongen in Belgium (1968) before undertaking doctoral studies at Indiana University (1969-1973). After teaching briefly at Regis College (Denver, 1974), he served as an instructor at Santa Clara University (1975-1982) and assisted at St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco (1983-1984). He then pursued post-doctoral work at Georgetown’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics (1985-1988), where he also taught theology and medical ethics in the School of Nursing (1987-1990).

He took a leave of absence from the Society in 1991 and formally departed in 1994, later marrying Marilyn "Lynn" Conroy and settling in Greensburg (Pennsylvania) where he taught for a time at Seton Hill University. He died in 2020.