Willie James Jennings
Willie James Jennings teaches theology and Africana studies at Yale Divinity School and is author of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Yale University Press).
Christians have long lived in denial of our deep creaturely connections.
We can be joined by our suffering, not just separated.
We have forgotten how to dream the land.
Resident Aliens affirmed the strange way we Americans deal with our racial history and its current realities by indirection, innuendo, and avoidance.
Willie James Jennings: 5 picks
We posed this question to eight theologians: Suppose someone told you they haven’t been keeping up with theology for the past 25 years. Now they want to read the most important books in theology that were written during that time. What five titles would you suggest?
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