wfn.org | Robert Lee, seminary professor and social ethicist, dies at 72

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22-March-2002
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Robert Lee, seminary professor and social ethicist, dies at 72

by Jerry L. Van Marter

Robert Lee, emeritus professor of Christian social ethics at San Francisco Theological Seminary, died March 15 of complications from pneumonia. He was 72.  

A fourth-generation Chinese American and Bay Area native, Lee graduated from the University of California-Berkeley and Berkeley's Pacific School of Religion. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York in 1958.

Lee's teaching career began in 1955 at Union Theological Seminary in New York.  He returned to the Bay Area in 1961 to teach social ethics at SFTS, becoming the first Asian American professor to serve in a Presbyterian seminary.  While at SFTS, Lee established the Institute of Ethics and Society and it's quarterly publication, Pacific Theological Review. He was the author of 17 books on theology and ethics, and contributed more than 100 articles to such publications as The National Observer, Theology Today and Society and Social Research.  In 1983, Lee accepted the position of vice president of academic affairs with Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, AK.  

Lee is survived by his wife, May, their five children, Melanie, Marcus, Wendy, Matthew and Miko, and eight grandchildren.  Services were held March 25 at First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo, CA.
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