Dr. Jamie T. Phelps, O.P., Ph.D. Appointed Director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies (IBCS)
Site: http://www.xula.edu/IBCS/
Sr. Jamie T. Phelps, O.P., Ph.D., a Roman Catholic
sister who has been a member of the Adrian Dominican Congregation since 1959, is
Director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies (IBCS), Xavier University,
and Professor of Systematic Theology. Dr. Phelps has been associated with the
IBCS since its inception in 1980 when she served as a major consultant to the
Reverend Dr. Thaddeus Posey, O.F.M., Cap. who was the founding Director of IBCS.
Since 1989 she has been a member of the Th. M. Degree faculty, and from
1994-2000 and served as Associate Director for the Institute's graduate degree
program.
As a theological scholar, her primary
research and teaching areas are in the discipline of Systematic
Theology. Over the past 17 years, she has offered courses in
Ecclesiology, the Doctrine of God and Trinitarian Theology, Christology,
Theology of Grace, Pneumatology, Faith and Revelation, and Liberation
Theologies. Her secondary research and teaching areas are in American
Catholic History, Cultural Studies and Race Theory.
Dr. Phelps is the editor of Black and
Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk, now in its second
edition. In addition, she has published more than 50 theological
articles on issues of the mission of the Church, evangelization,
enculturation, Christology, and spirituality. These have appeared in
scholarly books and journals including The Bible Today, Missiology, New
Theology Review, Theological Studies, U. S. Catholic Historian,
Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church edited by Gabriel
O'Donnell and Robin Mass, A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Reflections
on Evil and Suffering edited by Emilie M. Townes, Taking Down Our Harps:
Black Catholics in the United States edited by Diana Hayes and Cyprian
Davis, and Black Faith and Public Talk, edited by Dwight N. Hopkins. Her
seminal work establishes Phelps as a major contributor to the
development of Black Catholic Theology.
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