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Michael O'Brien (Canadian author)

Canadian Christian writer (born )

Michael O'Brien
Born	Michael David O'Brien (age&#;76&#;77)
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Nationality	Canadian

Michael David O'Brien (born ) is a Canadian author, artist, and essayist and lecturer on faith and culture. Born in Ottawa, he is self-taught, without an academic background.^[1][2] He writes and speaks on Catholic themes and topics,^[3][4][2] and creates the cover art for his novels in a neo-Byzantine style.^[5][6] He lives with his family in Combermere, Ontario, Canada.^[2]

O'Brien's books have been published in a number of foreign languages, including Croatian, Czech, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish.^[7]

Early life

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O'Brien was born in Ottawa and lived in Kugluktuk (then known as Coppermine) from ages 12 to He attended a residential school in Inuvik, where he says he was abused by a dormitory supervisor. He graduated from grade 12 at St Patrick's College High School only with difficulty.^[8] As a youth, he was agnostic, leaning towards atheism, until his conversion to Catholicism when he was He began to draw and paint shortly after, and had a successful ga

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Albert Schweitzer

German-French theologian and philosopher (–)

For the film, see Albert Schweitzer (film). For the American artist, see Albert Schweitzer (artist). For other uses, see Albert Schweitzer (disambiguation).

Ludwig Philipp Albert SchweitzerOM (German:[ˈalbɛʁtˈʃvaɪtsɐ]^ⓘ; 14 January &#;– 4 September ) was a German and French polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of the historical Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of "being in Christ" as primary and the doctrine of justification by faith as secondary.

He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life",^[1] becoming the eighth Frenchman to be awarded that prize. His philosophy was expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced th