Willie James Jennings

Willie James Jennings is an American theologian. In 2015 he was made an associate professor of systematic theology and Africana studies at Yale Divinity School and an ordained Baptist minister.[1] Before that he was an academic dean and associate professor of theology and black church studies at Duke University Divinity School.[2]

In 2010, Jennings published his book The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race,[3] for which he received the American Academy of Religion book award in 2011.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Staff Reporter. "Divinity School to boost faculty diversity". Yale Daily News. Yale University. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Jennings, Willie. "Becoming the common: why I got arrested in North Carolina". Religion Dispatches. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Jennings, Willie (2010). The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300171366.
  4. ↑ "Willie James Jennings". Fuller Mag. Fuller Seminary. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
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