Rubem Alves
| Rubem Azevedo Alves | |
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| Born |
15 September 1933 Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Died | 19 July 2014 (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. Alves was one of the founders of liberation theology.
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 City, 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.
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.
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