Miller, Randolph Crump 1910-2002
MILLER, Randolph Crump 1910-2002
OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born October 1, 1910, in Fresno, CA; died of cancer June 13, 2002, in New Haven, CT. Minister, educator, consultant, editor, and author. Miller, an ordained priest of the Protestant Episcopal church, devoted his life to religious education. He was a professor of divinity at Yale University for some thirty years beginning in 1952, and was named the Horace Bushnell Professor of Christian Nurture in 1964. He was also the editor of the nondenominational journal Religious Education from 1958 to 1978; he continued as managing editor of that journal from 1982 until 1993. Miller was a visiting professor at universities and seminaries throughout the world and a consultant to the National Council of Protestant Episcopal Churches. He had also served as the vicar of a church in Albany, California, in the 1940s. Miller wrote or edited more than twenty books. He was the author of The American Spirit in Theology, Live until You Die, This We Can Believe, and other volumes. His edited titles include What Is the Nature of Man?, Empirical Theology: A Handbook, and Theologies of Religious Education.
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Chronicle of Higher Education, June 28, 2002, p. A37. Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), June 17, 2002, p. B5. Washington Post, June 17, 2002, p. B4.