10AM – 1PM

Collier Room, Regent’s Park College

The Centre for Black Theology, Regent’s Park college will be hosting an international, half day symposium on Black theology. Working in partnership with African American colleagues, The Centre Black Theology, Regent’s Park college are exploring the historicity of Black theology as academic discipline. Speakers will include

• Professor Dwight N. Hopkins – Chicago University Divinity School
• Dr Aaron Grizzell – Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation
• Dr Andrea C. White – Union Theological Seminary
• Dr Raymond Carr – Harvard University

Possible areas to be covered:

• Dwight Hopkins – Outlining timelines for the development of Black theology. There is still this tendency to see the movement as wholly derivative of Latin American Liberation theology.
• Aaron Grizzell – Thurman and King as two forerunners to Black Theology, touching on the role of 1) concrete human connection, 2) the spirit, and 3) lived experience as intrinsic to how African people do theology.
• Andrea White – Womanist theology – Methodological innovations, relationship to Black theology.
• Raymond Carr – Black theology, musicality, and aesthetics

BLACK THEOLOGY & MINISTRY CONSULTATION

7^TH MAY 7 – 9PM

New Road Baptist Church

The evening will be musical interludes and perhaps some liturgy and an opportunity for church leaders and pastors to meet leading scholars and activists and ask them questions: – Less of the intellectual form of the morning, and more concerned with issues of practice. The evening will explore issues such as:-

• How does one preach Black or Womanist informed sermon?
• Can we give examples of how Black hermeneutics shape Bible study or our re-reading of well known biblical texts?
• How can music carry liberative theological content and not just be a placebo for making people feel good? Is the latter necessarily a bad thing?

 Evening Programme

• 6:30 – 7pm – Musical background by Bernett Mulungo
• 7:00 – 7:10pm – Introduction.
• 7:15 – 7:40pm – Black and Womanist theology scholars offer opening reflections on the role of music and the arts in propagating the disciplines.
• 7:40 – 7.50pm – Musical contribution by Bernett Mulungo
• 7:50 – 8.30pm – Sharing your story – Black scholars’ testimony.
• 8:30 – 9pm – Q&A – How is Black and Womanist theology relevant to ordinary Black people?
• 9:00 – 9.30pm – Musical outro – Bernett Mulungo.

If you wish to attend the morning in  person please contact Professor Anthony Reddie via his email – anthony.reddie@regents.ox.ac.uk

The Zoom link for joining us remotely for the morning can be found in the following link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SA1argEDT-2OBynJU47-bg

If you wish to attend the evening, please contact Irim Sarwar @ office@newroad.org.uk