Gabriel Moran, AFSC[1] (11 August 1935 – 15 October 2021[2]) was an American scholar and teacher in the fields of Christian theology and religious education.
He held the title of Professor Emeritus in the Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences at New York University, where he also served as the co-director of the Philosophy of Education Program.
[4] During that period while he was teaching high school boys, Brother Moran also earned a master's degree in Religious Education from Catholic University, which he completed in 1962.
His master's won widespread notice in the religious community, due to its contribution to the need for reformulating traditional categories of theological thought created by the declarations of the Council.
In 1962 he was assigned to teach the younger Brothers at De La Salle College in Washington, D.C., where he taught philosophy and theology, while he pursued a doctorate in Religious Education at Catholic University.
[4] In 1981 Moran joined the Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences of New York University, where he taught religion, philosophy, and the history of education.