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Tom Faw Driver (May 31, 1925 – July 12, 2021) was a theologian, preacher, lecturer, author, and peace activist. He is best known for his combined interest in theology, theater, and ritual studies. Tom F. Driver is also known for his numerous publications and lectures on similar topics, which range from academic and popular articles to sermons and books. These culminate in works that condemn war and advocate justice. Driver was also the photographer and director of two documentary films about the violence in Colombia, both of which were written and narrated in collaboration with his wife, historian Anne L. Barstow. Since his retirement from teaching (1991), Driver has actively been included in a number of projects that promote peace, justice, and human rights in Haiti and Colombia. He has advocated nonviolent resistance to evil, as well as the rejection of war. In 2014, Tom and his wife were the first recipients of the annual Anne Barstow and Tom Driver Award for Excellence in Nonviolent Action in Retirement, given by the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.


Early life

Tom F. Driver was born on May 31, 1925, in Johnson City, TN. When he was five years old, his family moved to Bristol, TN-VA. From an early age, he showed great interest in both church and theater. During the Second World War in 1943, he finished high school and was then drafted in the
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by his father, who was the head of the local draft board. Driver spent the rest of World War II in uniform, mostly in the Corps of Engineers in Europe. By the time he was honorably discharged in the spring of 1946, he had become staunchly opposed to both war and militarism.


Career

Driver’s lifelong advocacy of peace and justice was influenced by the war and his war experience. He was also influenced by his involvement in the
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youth movement, while he was a college student. Enrolling at
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, a Methodist school, he joined the World Federalists Movement, a democratic movement of the world's citizens and the
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, an international body made up of religious organizations in support of nonviolence. His experiences at Duke continued to develop his engagement in theology as an underpinning of peace and justice. While in college, Driver was also active in the Duke Players, the
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,
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fraternity, and eventually both
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and
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. His roles for the Duke Players group included ''The Glass Menagerie'' (playing the Gentleman Caller), ''Angel Street'' (playing Mr. Manningham), and ''Julius Caesar'' (playing Mark Antony). In his senior year, he founded The Wesley Players, launching it with productions of ''A Child is Born'', by Stephen Vincent Benet, and ''Aria da Capo'', by
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. After graduating from Duke in 1950, Driver enrolled for the Bachelor of Divinity (BD) program (later known as the Master of Divinity or MDiv program) at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he studied under Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, James Muilenburg, and others. He was ordained to the Christian ministry by the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church in 1953. Meanwhile, in 1952, he married Anne Barstow of Palatka, FL, whose lifelong
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would bring Driver into frequent affiliation with Presbyterian churches and into active work with the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. Both served on its National Council. Barstow herself became a historian. The couple, both professors in higher education, are the parents of three children — two daughters and one son. Driver received a Kent Fellowship in 1953 that enabled him to enter the Ph.D. program in th
Department of English and Comparative Literature
at
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with a concentration in the history of theater and drama. He received his doctorate in 1957 with a dissertation soon published as ''The Sense of History in Greek and Shakespearean Drama.'' Holding advanced degrees in both theology and theater, Driver was uncertain what his future might hold. His multifaceted career began to take shape in August 1956. Within a single week, he received two offers of jobs: from Union Theological Seminary, he received an invitation to help initiate a Program in Religious Drama that was being funded by the
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, while from ''
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'', a weekly magazine with national circulation, he received an invitation to become its first-ever theater critic. At the seminary, he worked under the drama program's Visiting Director, E. Martin Browne, best known as the director of all the plays of T. S. Eliot in London and New York. During the life of the Religious Drama program, Driver directed the first New York City production of ''David'', a play by D. H. Lawrence, as well as an abbreviated version of The ''Caucasian Chalk Circle'', by
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. Driver's theater criticism began to appear in 1952 with articles in the motive magazine, a publication of the Methodist Student Movement. This led to his appointment in 1956 as the first-ever theater critic for The Christian Century Magazine through which he gained national recognition. He also reviewed plays for The New Republic, became the first-night theater critic for station WBAI-FM in New York, and in 1963 the theater critic for The Reporter Magazine (see below), meanwhile writing numerous articles having to do with literature and theater in other magazines and journals. In this period, he also lectured widely and gave sermons in colleges and universities throughout the United States. Also in 1956, Driver was commissioned by the Methodist Student Movement to write the libretto for an oratorio, ''The Invisible Fire'', about the life of
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, the founder of
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, and his brother, the hymnodist
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. The oratorio was premiered on January 1, 1957, at
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, Kansas, by the
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under the direction of
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. Invisible Fire was also performed on CBS TV on May 25, 1958, by the CBS Symphony Orchestra with soloists and chorus conducted by
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. By 1958, Driver had become an Assistant Professor of Christian Theology at Union Seminary. He would eventually become the Paul J. Tillich Professor of Theology and Culture. Driver’s 1960 interview in Paris with the author,
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, was published in 1961 as “Beckett by the Madeleine” and has been much anthologized. ''
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'' hired Driver as its theater critic in 1963, starting with a review of Peter Brooke’s celebrated London production of ''King Lear''. The association ended in less than a year (in the spring of 1964) when Driver ran afoul of the magazine’s founder and publisher,
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, by writing a favorable review of
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’s Broadway play, '' Blues for Mister Charlie''. Mr. Ascoli, an early publisher, and advocate of Baldwin’s work had turned against Baldwin when the latter published ''
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'', a book about black anger at white supremacy. Ascoli thought Baldwin’s defense of that anger was unjustified and he refused to let his magazine endorse a Baldwin play. Thus rejected, Driver’s review was soon published by three other journals: ''Christianity and Crisis'', ''
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'', and ''
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.'' Upon leaving ''The Reporter'' magazine, Driver turned his attention to writing a history of the modern theater that he had been commissioned to write for the Dell Publishing Co. It was published in 1970 as ''Romantic Quest and Modern Query: A History of the Modern Theater''. That work superseded a projected work on “Imagination and Revelation,” for which he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962. Meanwhile, Driver served on the editorial board of ''Christianity and Crisis'' from 1960 until 1965, when he resigned because of the magazine’s reluctance to condemn the
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. However, Driver continued to write articles for its pages almost until it ceased publication in 1993. The polarization of American society was acute during the 1960s, especially in academic institutions. Driver’s political thought moved towards that of the “
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”. A devoted Protestant Christian throughout his life, he nevertheless became critical of much traditional theology and practice. Although never a parish minister, he was a frequent and eloquent preacher. During the 1960s, Driver’s theater interests were drawn towards offerings off-Broadway, particularly to the ''avant-garde'' of the time and its participational forms of theater. In the classroom, he developed highly participational modes of teaching. These tendencies resulted in his first theological book, ''Patterns of Grace: Human Experience as Word of God'' (1977), followed by ''Christ in a Changing World: Toward an Ethical Christology'' (1981). Driver’s twin interests in theater and theology led over time to the study of ritual. He saw that both religion and theater involve the public performance of symbolic actions. Both are present in all human societies. Ritual is not only a preserver of society but also, at various times, a resource for its transformation. Driver contributed to organizing the Ritual Studies Group of the
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; which helped to formalize the study of religious ritual in U.S. universities and seminaries. The Ritual study Group led Driver to a short period of research in the highlands of
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in the summer of 1976. The photographs and audio recordings he made there were later presented at the
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in New York as well as in classroom teaching. Driver’s thinking about ritual eventuated in the book, ''The Magic of Ritual: Our Need for Liberating Rites That Transform Our Lives and Our Communities'' (1991), later revised and re-published as ''Liberating Rites: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual'' (1998, 2006). In 1982, Driver did research in
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, focused on the ritual life of ''
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'', the country’s popular religion. Nine years later, in 1991, his retirement from teaching coincided with a ''
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'' against Haiti’s first democratically elected president,
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. Driver became an active supporter of Haiti’s beleaguered democratic movement, working with
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, for whom he chaired a Task Force on Haiti, leading numerous fact-finding delegations there between 1991 and 2004. Witness for Peace is a grassroots U.S. organization promoting peace, justice, and sustainable economies in the Americas, including the Caribbean. Witness for Peace also took Driver to
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in 2000, where he was the photographer for a documentary film entitled ''Colombia, the Next Vietnam?''''Colombia - The Next Vietnam?'' (2001), directed by Tom F. Driver, written and produced by Tom F. Driver and Anne Barstow. 43 mins. Available from . He returned to Colombia in 2003 with a delegation arranged by his wife, Anne Barstow, and sponsored by Witness for Peace and the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. Once again, he photographed and edited a documentary film, this one known as ''Colombians Speak Out about Violence and U.S. Policy''.Colombians Speak Out about Violence and U.S. Policy (2003''),'' directed by Tom F. Driver, written and produced by Tom F. Driver and Anne Barstow, 32 mins. Like the first Colombia film, it was co-authored and narrated jointly with Anne Barstow. It was screened at the 200
Mountaintop Human Rights Film Festival
in Vermont. As an advocate of nonviolent action, as an alternative to war and militarism, Professor Driver edited and wrote the Introduction to a special issue of ''Church and Society'' in 2001, a journal published by the Presbyterian Church (USA) entitled ''Rethinking War, Rethinking Peace, Making Peace''. In 2005, in the wake of the disclosure of the use of torture by American military personnel at the
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in Iraq, he helped write “What's at Stake in Torture? Ritual, Imagination, and the Role of Media in the Construction of State Power.”


Retirement

In 2011, after living 61 years in New York City, Driver moved with his wife to a retirement community in
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. There, in 2017, he became the founding chairperson o
Senior Advocates for Justice
a politically active group in resistance to the Presidential administration that began that year. He drafted the group’s ''Dream for America''. Driver continued to write, lecture, and preach. Driver’s papers and photos are archived at th

of Union Theological Seminary in New York; see th
Finding Aid


Awards and honors

* D.Litt. (honorary degree),
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, 1970 *
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*
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* Kent Fellowship, 1953 *
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, 1962 * Excellence in Ritual Studies award of the
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, 2001 * The Andrew Murray Award of The Witherspoon Society (shared with Anne L. Barstow), 2006 * The Anne Barstow and Tom Driver Award for Excellence in Nonviolent Action in Retirement, given by The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, 2014


Visiting professorships and lectures

*
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*
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, Kyoto, Japan *
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*
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*
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, Dunedin, New Zealand


Publications


Books

1958 ''The Invisible Fire''. Libretto for oratorio, with music by Cecil Effinger. New York: H.W. Gray Co. 1960 '' The Sense of History in Greek and Shakespearean Drama''. New York: Columbia University Press. Paperback edition, 1967. 1964 ''Poems of Doubt and Belief: An Anthology of Modern Religious Poetry''. Co-edited with Robert Pack New York: Macmillan Co. 1966 ''
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''. New York: Columbia University Press. 1970 '' Romantic Quest and Modern Query: A History of the Modern Theater''. New York: Delacorte Press. Paperback edition, A Delta Book, 1971. Reprinted at Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1980. 1977 ''Patterns of Grace: Human Experience as Word of God''. San Francisco: Harper & Row. Reprinted at Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985. 1981 ''Christ in a Changing World: Toward an Ethical Christology''. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co. 1991 ''The Magic of Ritual: Our Need for Liberating Rites that Transform Our Lives and Our Communities''. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. 1998 ''<2007> Liberating Rites: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual''. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (reissue of ''The Magic of Ritual'', with new Preface and new title).


Films

* ''Colombia, the Next Vietnam?'' (2000) * ''Colombians Speak Out about Violence and U.S. Policy'' (2003)


Articles

In addition to the theater reviews that appeared in ''The Christian Century'' magazine between 1956 and 1962, Tom F. Driver has authored more than 200 articles for the following publications (among others): * ''America'' * ''Christian Thought'' * ''Christianity and Crisis'' * ''Church & Society'' * ''Clio'' * ''Columbia University Forum'' * ''Commonweal'' * ''Congress Monthly'' * ''Critical Review of Books in Religion'' * ''Crossroads'' * ''Educational Theater Review'' * ''
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'' * ''International Journal of Religious Education'' * ''
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'' * ''motive'' * ''
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'' * ''Newsletter of the North American Paul Tillich Society'' * ''Oxymoron: The Arts and Sciences Annual'' * ''
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'' * ''Religious Studies News'' * ''
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'' * '' Saturday Review'' * ''
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'' * ''
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'' * ''Social Action'' * '' Soundings'' * ''
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'' * ''
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'' * ''The Christian Scholar'' * ''The Encyclopedia of Religion'' * ''The Living Pulpit'' * ''
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'' * ''
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'' * ''
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'' * ''
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'' * ''Theatre Symposium'' * ''
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'' * '' Tulane Drama Review'' * ''
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'' * ''United Methodist Reporter'' * '' Women’s Studies Quarterly''


Family, residence, and contact information

Married (1952) to historian Anne L. Barstow, they have three children: Kate Driver Murphy, Paul Barstow Driver, and Susannah Driver Barstow. They have three grandsons and one granddaughter.


References

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