约翰·鲍威尔·克莱顿
1964年，波士顿大学宗教系主任
约翰·鲍威尔·克莱顿 was born in 1943 in Sherman, Texas, and grew up in Bailey. 当他九岁的时候, his family moved to Tulia where his father relocated his cotton ginning business. John graduated from Tulia High School in 1961 and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in religion from Hardin-Simmons in 1964. He went on to Baylor University where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 1967. He attended Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, earning a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1968. 1975年，约翰在剑桥大学获得博士学位.
作为中文博彩平台的学生, John was a member of Tau Alpha Phi social club and was a member and vice president of Pi Gamma Mu National Honorary Social Science Fraternity.
1965年，约翰与他的高中恋人琼·哈里斯结婚. 他们的女儿艾玛出生于1981年.
In 1972, 不相信自己真的有可能得到这份工作, he applied for and received a position at the University of Lancaster in Lancaster, 英格兰. The Religious Studies Department of Lancaster was quite new when John joined as their first lecturer in religious and atheistic thought. Over the years, he worked his way up the academic ranks until he became professor. 不久之后, he became the first American ever to be asked by Cambridge University to deliver the prestigious Stanton Lectures in Philosophy of Religion. 晚些时候, 他成了系主任, which earned important national rankings under his four-year leadership. Lancaster emerged as one of the leading schools for religious studies in the United Kingdom.
In 1997, 约翰在波士顿大学接受了一个类似的职位, 作为宗教教授, 宗教系主任, and director of the division of religious and theological studies, 他在哪里直到2003年去世.
John traveled extensively, lecturing widely throughout Europe and the United States. In particular, he established a professional presence in Germany. 从1980年到1997年, 他曾在拜罗伊特大学担任客座教授, Germany; Rice University; the University of Houston; and was the Hulsean Preacher to the University of Cambridge.
In 1998 John was named an honorary professor of religious studies by the University of Stirling, 苏格兰, and in 1999 was named an honorary professor of religious studies by the University of Lancaster, 英格兰. In 2002, Cornell University named him an honorary visiting scholar in Near Eastern studies, 还有那一年, he was named a research scholar by the Institute of Religion and World Affairs at Boston University and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. 约翰于1995年获得哈佛大学杰出校友奖.
书是约翰的最爱. In 2003, 患癌症, John arranged to have his vast religion and philosophy library gifted, 在他死后, to HSU as an acknowledgment of his affection for and gratitude to Hardin-Simmons. The John Clayton Collection in Philosophy and Religious Studies located in the Richardson Library includes 2,867 volumes of books and a number of unbound publications and scholarly papers from John’s estate.
John’s desire was to provide an opportunity for other young students to begin a quest for knowledge as he had done when he came to Hardin-Simmons where his mind was challenged with questions he spent a lifetime answering. 他的奉献精神, 的决心, and perseverance in his pursuit of knowledge led this nationally and internationally distinguished scholar to the highest ranks of academia.
而他达到了最高的学习标准, John continued to have the thirst for knowledge that was awakened in him during his undergraduate career. Though he was a highly celebrated scholar, John never forgot his roots and his HSU friends. 他珍惜在中文博彩平台的回忆, 把它留给了他最大的宝库——他的藏书室.
John has been described as a humorous and unique man who was industrious, 好奇的, 问一些探索性的问题. He is remembered as a student who made the other students think. He continued throughout his life challenging students to think. And by leaving the legacy of his library to HSU, he continues still to ask us all to use our minds.
It is the high honor of Hardin-Simmons University to recognize one of her own and to formally induct 约翰·鲍威尔·克莱顿 into the HSU 领袖堂. 我们要感谢布朗博士的家人. 克莱顿出席.
