Living Black Theology

Anthony G. Reddie is the Professor of Black Theology at the University of Oxford, a historic first ever appointment. He is also the Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture in Regent's Park College, at the University of Oxford, and an Extraordinary Professor of Theological Ethics and a Research Fellow with the University of South Africa. He is the first Black person to get an 'A' rating in Theology and Religious studies in the South African National Research Foundation. This designation means that he is a leading international researcher.

• Introduction: The Hinterland to This Book 1: Living Black Theology: The Dual Nature of Living 2: Deconstructing Whiteness and Decolonizing the Curriculum of Theological Education: A Necessary Two-Part Innovation 3: From Black Theology to Black Lives Matter and back Again 4: Deconstructing Methodist Mythology: The Search for a Usable Postcolonial Ethic 5: Transformative Education, Participative Black Theology, and the Challenge of Making a Difference 6: Reassessing the Inculcation of an Anti-Racist Ethic for Christian Ministry: From Racism Awareness to Deconstructing Whiteness 7: Sameness and Difference: A Worked Experiment 8: The Front Room and the Back: Explorations in Black Narratology

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 Ẹnu 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.