Edwin Aubrey

Nationality

U.S.A.

Date of Birth

1896

Date of Death

1956

Political
Preference

Edwin Ewart Aubrey was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1896 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1918. Aubrey studied philosophy at Bucknell and Chicago, later he also obtained an honorary doctorate in Divinity from Bucknell. From 1929 to 1944, he was professor of Christian theology and ethics at the University of Chicago.

Aubrey attended the Life and Work conference in Oxford in 1937 and the meetings of the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace during the Second World War. He succeeded the CJDP’s founder, Walter W. Van Kirk, as Chairman of the Department of International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches in the States.