Michael L. Brown | |
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Born | New York, New York, U.S. | March 16, 1955
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | New York University (PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Radio host, professor |
Political party | Independent |
Spouse | Nancy Gurian Conway Brown (married 1977) |
Website | www |
Michael L. Brown (born March 16, 1955) is an American radio host, author, apologist, activist, and proponent of Messianic Judaism, Christian Zionism, [1] and the Charismatic Movement. His nationally syndicated radio show, The Line of Fire, airs throughout the United States. He contributes articles to the Christian news platform The Stream as well as to the news site Townhall, and serves as head of the Coalition of Conscience, a Christian organization in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. He holds a Ph.D in Near Eastern Languages and Literature from New York University.[ citation needed ]
Brown is president and professor of practical theology at FIRE School of Ministry in Concord, NC. He has also served as visiting professor of Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois and visiting professor of Jewish apologetics at Fuller Theological Seminary, School of World Mission as well as several other seminaries. [2]
Between 1996 and 2000, Brown was one of the leaders in the Brownsville Revival, a Christian movement that began on June 18, 1995 at the Brownsville Assembly of God church in Pensacola, Florida. In 2000, though, the board removed Brown from his position as president of Brownsville Revival School of Ministry (BRSM). [3] [ better source needed ]
In 2001, Brown started the FIRE School of Ministry, a Christian leadership training institute that is heavily influenced by the revival movement that Brown was removed from. In 2005 Brown founded another revivalist organization called ICN Ministries. The intent of the organization is to spread the revivalist message to places like Israel, other Christian organizations, and other places where Brown has influence. [4] [ better source needed ]
Brown has been criticized in Charlotte by the local LGBT community for holding a rally in protest of their 2009 Charlotte Pride Festival. [5] The Southern Poverty Law Center has profiled him for his promotion of "junk science" on topics connected to sexual orientation, such as in his regular claims that, rather than being genetic, homosexuality is caused by childhood trauma, as well as his support for conversion therapy. [6] In September 2012, the organization named him in their list of "30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right." [7] In March 2014, Brown traveled to Peru to oppose the legalization of gay marriage there. [8] He has also defended Uganda's criminalization of homosexuality, saying that the law was necessary to fight the spread of AIDS/HIV and combat pedophilia. [9] But he also posted on his website that he "renounces" homophobic views, such as advocated by Steven Anderson (who called for the death penalty for homosexuals) [10] and said that "gay people should be treated with respect and dignity". [11]
Brown was criticized for citing the white supremacist website Stormfront in an article "asking whether it was time for another Jesus Movement among Jewish millennials". [12] [ better source needed ] He apologized, saying he was not aware what the site was. [13]
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Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age, and he also founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe from the mid-40s to the mid-50s AD.
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The term "historical Jesus" refers to the life and teachings of Jesus as interpreted through critical historical methods, in contrast to what are traditionally religious interpretations. It also considers the historical and cultural contexts in which Jesus lived. Virtually all scholars of antiquity accept that Jesus was a historical figure, and the idea that Jesus was a mythical figure has been consistently rejected by the scholarly consensus as a fringe theory. Scholars differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the biblical accounts, with only two events being supported by nearly universal scholarly consensus: Jesus was baptized and crucified.
Pauline Christianity or Pauline theology, otherwise referred to as Gentile Christianity, is the theology and form of Christianity which developed from the beliefs and doctrines espoused by the Hellenistic-Jewish Apostle Paul through his writings and those New Testament writings traditionally attributed to him. Paul's beliefs were rooted in the earliest Jewish Christianity, but they deviated from this Jewish Christianity in their emphasis on inclusion of the Gentiles into God's New Covenant and in his rejection of circumcision as an unnecessary token of upholding the Mosaic Law.
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Amy-Jill Levine is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. She is committed to eliminating antisemitic, sexist, and homophobic theologies.
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Are the views of Raymond Brown also 'cockamamie'?
I interviewed E. Michael Jones of the book The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. He flatly denies being anti-Semitic and speaks against hurting the Jewish people physically. At the same time, he affirms the blanket statement that 'the Jews killed Christ' and believes that Paul explicitly taught that 'the Jews' are hostile to all people and do not please God.·With reference to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor:Petrus, Johannes (July–August 2012). Jones, E. Michael (ed.). "Elder Brother". South Bend, IN: Culture Wars. Archived from the original on May 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
What would someone say if they were asked 'who bombed Pearl Harbor'? Almost everyone will respond by saying: 'The Japanese'.
In Memory of Rabbi Dr David S. Blumofe […], founder of the RZA in Chicago, by the Blumofe families (CA).