Rubem Alves

Rubem Azevedo Alves
Born (1933-09-15)15 September 1933
Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Died 19 July 2014(2014-07-19) (aged 80)
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Language English, Portuguese
Nationality Brazilian
Citizenship Brazilian

Rubem Azevedo Alves (15 September 1933 – 19 July 2014) was a Brazilian theologian, philosopher, educator, writer and psychoanalyst.[1] Alves was one of the founders of liberation theology.[2]

Early life

Alves was born in Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais. He obtained his Bachelor of Theology (B.Th.) degree at the Seminário Teológico Presbiteriano do Sul, Campinas, Brazil, in 1957. He went on to obtain a Master of Theology (Th.M.) from the Union Theological Seminary, New York, United States, in 1964, and a doctorate (Ph.D.) from Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, in 1968. He trained as a psychoanalyst through 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 a university professor and researcher, Alves is a prolific writer of books and articles in journals and newspapers on education, psychology and life in general. Since 1986, he has been a regular columnist at the Correio Popular, the main newspaper in his hometown, Campinas, in São Paulo state. He has published more than 40 books, several of which 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.[3]

Books

International

In Portuguese

References

  1. ↑ "Brazilian writer Rubem Alves dies". SBS News. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
  2. ↑ Altmann, Walter (18 November 2009). "Liberation theology is still alive and well". Ekklesia. UK. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
    - McGrath, Alister E (1995). The Blackwell encyclopedia of modern Christian thought. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 331. ISBN 0-631-19896-2.
    - Linhares, Bruno J (2007). "Princeton Theological Seminary and the Birth of Liberation Theology". Koinonia (Princeton: Princeton Theological Seminary) 19: 85–105. ISSN 1047-1057.
  3. ↑ 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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