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biographical note:
Theodore Walker, Jr. is Associate Professor of Ethics and Society at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
His appointment at Perkins was preceded by one year of service to Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida, and three years of service to Hood Theological Seminary, Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina.
He is author of EMPOWER THE PEOPLE: SOCIAL ETHICS FOR THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCH, vol. 5 of the Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Studies in North American Black Religion Series (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1991), and a contributor to other books and journals.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Theodore Walker, Jr.
personal:
born December 1953
Greensboro, North Carolina
education:
Ph.D. in theological inquiry (1983)
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
major: theological ethics
minors: philosophical theology & history of religions
dissertation: "God of the Oppressed:
a Metaphysical and Ethical Analysis"
directed by Stanley Hauerwas
B.A. in political science (1976)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
diploma from Salisbury High School (1972)
Salisbury, North Carolina
academic appointments:
1992 - - Associate Professor of Ethics & Society
Perkins School of Theology,
Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas 75275
1986-1992 - Assistant Professor of Ethics & Society
Perkins School of Theology,
Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas 75275
1985-1986 - Assistant Professor of Religion & Philosophy
Bethune-Cookman College,
Daytona Beach, Florida 32014
1983-1986 - Systematic Theology
Hood Theological Seminary,
Livingstone College,
Salisbury, North Carolina 28144
memberships:
Shiloh Baptist Church
in Greensboro, North Carolina
St. Luke "Community" United Methodist Church
in Dallas, Texas
professional associations:
American Academy of Religion
Society for the Study of Black Religion
Society of Christian Ethics
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publications
by Theodore Walker, Jr.
Perkins School of Theology
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas 75275
books:
contributions to books:
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"Can a Million Black Men be Good News?: a Great Cloud of Witnesses to the Affirmative" is chapter one of BLACK RELIGION AFTER THE MILLION MAN MARCH (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1998), edited by Garth KASIMU Baker-Fletcher.
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"African-American Resources for More Inclusive Liberation Theology" is now reprinted in THIS SACRED EARTH: RELIGION, NATURE, ENVIRONMENT (New York: Routledge, 1996), edited by Roger S. Gottlieb.
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"Theological Resources for a Black Neoclassical Social Ethics" is reprinted as a chapter in
BLACK THEOLOGY: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY, VOLUME TWO: 1980-1992 (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1993),
edited by James H. Cone and Gayraud S. Wilmore.
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"African-American Resources for More Inclusive Liberation Theology" is reprinted as a chapter in
GOOD NEWS FOR ANIMALS?: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO
ANIMAL WELL-BEING, edited by Charles Pinches and
Jay B. McDaniels (Maryknolll, New York: Orbis Books, 1993).
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"Hartshorne's Neoclassical Theism and Black Theology" is reprinted as chapter one of
CHARLES HARTSHORNE'S CONCEPT OF GOD:
CRITICAL RESPONSES, edited by Santiago Sia
(Birmingham, UK; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990)
This text includes a response by Charles Hartshorne.
articles:
- "Why Avoid Statements About What God Cannot Do?: A Note to Neoclassical and Process Metaphysicians" in PROCESS STUDIES, volume 28/1-2, Spring-Summer 1999.
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"Neoclassical Thought and Social Ethical Analysis" was originally a paper presented at The Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California on 13 November 1996, and
- reprinted in CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION, vol. 6, no. 2, Winter 1997, and on the world wide web at http://www.smu.edu/~twalker/process.htm
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"African-American Resources for More Inclusive Liberation Theology" in THE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT, vol. 51, no. 2, Winter 1994-Spring 1995,
and
- reprinted in
GOOD NEWS FOR ANIMALS?: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO
ANIMAL WELL-BEING, edited by Charles Pinches and
Jay B. McDaniels (Maryknolll, New York: Orbis Books, 1993), and
- reprinted again in THIS SACRED EARTH: RELIGION, NATURE, ENVIRONMENT (New York: Routledge, 1996), edited by Roger S. Gottlieb.
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"Hartshorne's Neoclassical Theism and Black Theology"
in PROCESS STUDIES, vol. 18, no. 4, winter 1989,
and
- reprinted as chapter one of
CHARLES HARTSHORNE'S CONCEPT OF GOD:
CRITICAL RESPONSES, edited by Santiago Sia
(Birmingham, UK; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990)
This text includes a response by Charles Hartshorne.
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"Theological Resources for a Black Neoclassical Social Ethics" in THE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT, vol. 45, no. 2, February 1989,
and
- reprinted in BLACK THEOLOGY: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY, VOLUME TWO: 1980-1992 (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1993), edited by James H. Cone and Gayraud S. Wilmore.
major reviews:
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"A Social Ethical Analysis of BLACK ELK SPEAKS" (Spring 1996) on the world wide web at http://www.smu.edu/~theology/blackelk/blackelk.htm
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a review of James H. Cone's MARTIN & MALCOLM: A DREAM OR A NIGHTMARE (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1991) published in CRITICAL REVIEW OF BOOKS IN RELIGION, 1993
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a review of WITNESS AND EXISTENCE: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF SCHUBERT OGDEN, edited by Philip E. Devenish and George L. Goodwin (University of Chicago Press, 1989) in PROCESS STUDIES, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 1991
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a review of James H. Cone's SPEAKING THE TRUTH: ECUMENISM, LIBERATION, AND BLACK THEOLOGY (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986) in THE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT, vol. 44, no. 2, Winter-Spring 1988
minor reviews & book notes:
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a review of Tony Smith's THE ROLE OF ETHICS IN SOCIAL THEORY: ESSAYS FROM A HABERMASIAN PERSPECTIVE (New York: SUNY, 1991) in THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION, vol. 73, no. 1, January 1993
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a review of Henry Young's HOPE IN PROCESS: A THEOLOGY OF SOCIAL PLURALISM (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990) in the JOURNAL OF RELIGON, vol. 72, no. 3, July 1992
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a review of Pobee and Hallencreutz's VARIATIONS IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IN AFRICA in THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION, April 1989
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a review of Jurgen Moltmann's GOD IN CREATION in INTERPRETATION, April 1987
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a review of Donald Viney's CHARLES HARTSHORNE AND THE EXISTENCE OF GOD in THE PERKINS JOURNAL, January 1987
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a review of Joseph Allen's LOVE AND CONFLICT in INTERPRETATION, January 1986
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a reveiw of Walter G. Muelder's ETHICAL EDGE OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY in INTERPRETATION, October 1985
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a review of James Cone's FOR MY PEOPLE in THE JOURNAL OF RELIGOUS THOUGHT, vol. 42, no. 1, Spring-Summer 1985
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a review of Jacque Ellul's LIVING FAITH in THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION, September 1984
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a review of Helmut Theilicke's LIVING WITH DEATH in THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION, June 1984
short essays:
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"A Social Ethical Reflection on Violence" in PERSPECTIVE (Perkins School of Theology), Fall 1994
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"Three Short Lessons in Christian Ethics" in A.M.E. ZION QUARTERLY REVIEW, October 1987.
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"The Most Important Thing Christians Do" in A.M.E. ZION QUARTERLY REVIEW, April 1985.
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"Frederick Douglass: an Autobiography as Theology" in A.M.E. ZION QUARTERLY REVIEW, July 1984
work accepted for publication
but not yet in print:
- a review of Francis K. Githieya's THE FREEDOM OF THE SPIRIT: AFRICAN INDIGENOUS CHURCHES IN KENYA (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997) for the JOURNAL OF RELIGION (April 2000).
- a review of James H. Cone's MARTIN & MALCOLM & AMERICA: A DREAM OR A NIGHTMARE in THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY
in production:
- a review of James H. Cone's RISKS OF FAITH: THE EMERGENCE OF A BLACK THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION, 1968-1998 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999) for THEOLOGY TODAY.
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