Description: Living Black Theology provides a challenging and radical critique of the present world order. It argues that the world as we experience it presently has its roots in the era of slavery and European colonialism, especially the British empire, the largest example of imperialism in human history. Written by the first Professor of Black Theology in the history of the University of Oxford, Living Black Theology offers a bold reassessment of how we can rethink the past that will challenge our contemporary ways of living. Ultimately, this text seeks to help us reimage and remake the future, one that is more equitable and just for all peoples. This is a landmark book.
Review Quotes: "Reddie's Living Black Theology: Decolonising Knowledge should be read as a form of theological elder wisdom - knowledge ripened through long experience, cultural memory, and sustained engagement with Black life. Framed by the Yorùbá proverb á°, nu àgbà ni òbí ìgbó, Reddie's work represents both a gift and a challenge to Black theology: a gift in its participative, narrative, and decolonial methodological innovations, and a challenge in the unresolved tensions that remain within its ontological commitments." -- Akeem Adagbada, Black Theology
"Anthony Reddie is Professor of Black Theology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Regent's Park College, and his latest book represents a major contribution to Black Theology from a UK perspective. ...this important book needs to be read, and its ideas engaged." -- Robert Ellis, Baptist Quarterly"Living Black Theology is deeply effective because it harnesses the power of story as a driver of theological work and makes clear that theology's ultimate end must be the ways in which one lives." -- M. M. Veeneman, CHOICE