Dr Willie James Jennings to Speak on Race and Faith (2/8)

Tomorrow evening (Tuesday, Feb 8th at 7pm, the Institute for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) at St John’s University is sponsoring a presentation by Rev. Dr. Willie James Jennings entitled: “To Educate toward Belonging: Race, Faith, and the Problem of the Finished Man."

Dr Jennings is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School and is the author of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, published with Yale University Press. This book won the American Academy of Religion Award of Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Constructive-Reflective category the year after it appeared and, in 2015, the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, the largest prize for a theological work in North America. Englewood Review of Books called the work a “theological masterpiece.”

Writing in the areas of liberation theologies, cultural identities, and anthropology, Jennings has authored more than 40 scholarly essays and nearly two-dozen reviews, as well as essays on academic administration and blog posts for Religion Dispatches.

This presentation will be followed by an opportunity for discussion, questions, and answers

This event is part of St. John’s University’s observance of Black History Month, and will be held online.

You can register here.