Rubem Alves

Rubem Azevedo Alves
Born September 15, 1933(1933-09-15)
Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Language English, Portuguese
Nationality Brazilian
Citizenship Brazilian

Rubem Azevedo Alves, (born 15 September 1933) is a Brazilian theologian, philosopher, educator, writer, and psychoanalyst.

Alves was born in Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais. He is one of the founders of liberation theology.[1][2][3]

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Education

  1. Bachelor of Theology, (B.Th.) Seminário Teológico Presbiteriano do Sul, Campinas, Brazil, 1957.
  2. Master of Theology, (Th.M.) Union Theological Seminary, New York, United States, 1964.
  3. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, 1968.
  4. Trained Psychoanalyst by the Brazilian Association of Psychoanalysis of São Paulo.

Academic career

  1. Assistant Professor of Social Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Rio Claro (1969)
  2. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) (1974). He was promoted to professor (1979) and associate professor (1980), both at Faculty of Education, UNICAMP.

Career as writer

Besides his activities as university professor and researcher, Dr. Alves is a prolific writer of books and articles in journals and newspapers on education, psychology and life in general. Since 1986 he is a regular columnist at the Correio Popular, the main newspaper in his hometown, Campinas, in the state of São Paulo. He has published more than 40 books so far, and several of them have been translated into German, French, English, Italian, Spanish and Romanian. He is also a very popular lecturer and is much appreciated by educators in general for his humanistic views on education.

His book, The Poet, The Warrior, The Prophet is an important text in the field of Theopoetics.[4]

Books

International

In Portuguese

References

  1. ^ Altmann, Walter (18 November 2009). "Liberation theology is still alive and well". Ekklesia. UK. http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/10625. Retrieved 23 January 2010. 
  2. ^ McGrath, Alister E (1995) (in McGrath). The Blackwell encyclopedia of modern Christian thought. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 331. ISBN 0631198962. 
  3. ^ Linhares, Bruno J (2007). "Princeton Theological Seminary and the Birth of Liberation Theology". Koinonia (Princeton: Princeton Theological Seminary) 19: 85–105. ISSN 1047-1057. 
  4. ^ Linhares Junior, Bruno Mattos (2008). "The Theopoetics of Rubem Alves for Pastoral Theology". Nevertheless I Am Continually With You: A Cosmopolitan and Theopoetic Reframing of Pastoral Theology (Ph.D. thesis). Princeton Theological Seminary. pp. 100-166. 

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