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Willie James Jennings

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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.