Bruce Vawter

American Vincentian priest and biblical scholar

Francis Bruce Vawter, CM (1921–1 December 1986) was an American Vincentian priest and a biblical scholar.

Biography

Vawter was born in 1921 at Fort Worth, and joined the Vincentians in 1942. He was ordained in 1947. Vawter received his doctorate in sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and then was a Fulbright scholar at Eberhard University in Tübingen, West Germany.

Vawter was chairman of De Paul University's department of religious studies from 1969 until June 1986.

Vawter was a witness in the 1981 Creationism trial, reported as McLean v. Arkansas, at Little Rock, Arkansas.^[1]

Vawter died on 1 December 1986.^[2]

Works

Vawter authored more than a dozen works.^[3]

As author

Job and Jonah
The Path of Wisdom
Amos, Hosea, Micah: With an Introduction to Classical Prophecy
On Genesis
This Man Jesus
The four Gospels
Biblical Inspiration^[4]

As editor

Various works issued by the Catholic Biblical Association of America
Old Testament Abstracts

References

^ Langdon Brown Gilkey, Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock. University of Virginia Press, 1985
^ chicagotribune.com: "Rev. F.b. Vawter, Scripture Scholar", 3 Dec 1986
^ goodreads.com: "Books by Bruce Vawter"
^ Reginald H. Fuller, "Biblical Inspiration. Bruce Vawter" The Journal of Religion vol. 55, no. 2 (Apr., 1975): 284-285.