ABOUT ANTHONY

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Professor Anthony G. Reddie is a participative educator and liberation theologian who specialises in undertaking action-research and participative observational work with predominantly poorer Black communities in the UK. The author of 17 books, numerous journal articles and editor of Black Theology: An International Journal, Professor Reddie is renowned for his innovative and engaging teaching and facilitating style. He is one of the foremost Practical Black theologians in the world. In 2015 Professor Reddie was appointed Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systemic Theology at the University of South Africa.

Professor Reddie is a 'World Leading' scholar!

The South African National Research Foundation (equivalent of the UK REF) has announced it has awarded Professor Anthony Reddie an A rating for his scholarship. Professor Reddie is the first Black person to ever get an A rating in theology and religious studies in the history of the NRF in South Africa.

He has been awarded an A2 rating. The A and A2 rating are defined as follows:

A: Researchers who are unequivocally recognised by their peers as leading international scholars in their field for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs.
A2: A researcher in this group is recognised by the overriding majority of reviewers as a leading scholar in his/her field
internationally for the high quality and impact (either wide or confined) of his/her recent research outputs.

Professor Reddie's rating is valid from 01 January 2018 to 31 December 2023.

Professor Anthony Reddie awarded prestigious Lanfranc Award

Anthony G. Reddie – The Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship For his exceptional and sustained contribution to Black Theology in Britain and beyond. Anthony Reddie is an established and committed scholar in the field of Black Liberation Theology, who has dedicated his life to research, teaching, and indepth scholarship in the United Kingdom and around the world. Originally from Bradford, Anthony is rooted in the Methodist tradition both as a scholar and a Methodist Local Preacher. He has served the Methodist Church in the training of its preachers and clergy, enabling those preparing for ministry to engage with issues of race, class, and diversity. Most recently he has been a Mission Secretary for Europe for The Council for World Mission. He has been unwavering in his commitment to ecumenism, something reflected in the nature of his work and in his own personal ecclesiology. Anthony is a fellow of Wesley House, Cambridge and was recently appointed as the Director for the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture within Oxford University, where he is also a fellow of Regent’s Park College, Oxford. Anthony is the Editor of the Black Theology International Journal, the only global international journal of black theology in the world. He is Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systemic Theology at the University of South Africa and in 2018 became the first ever black person to receive an A rating in theology and religious studies in the history of the National Research Foundation in South Africa.
​https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/news/latest-news/archbishop-canterbury-announces-2020-lambeth-awards-recipients

Latest Books from Professor Anthony G. Reddie

Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique - Routledge, June 10th 2019
Summary:
​This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theological challenge presented by the new post-Brexit epoch. The referendum vote for Britain to leave the European Union has led to a seismic shift in the ways in which parts of the British population view and judge their compatriots. The subsequent rise in the reported number of racially motivated incidents and the climate of vilification and negativity directed at anyone not viewed as ‘authentically’ British should be a matter of concern for all people.
The book is comprised of a series of essays that address varying aspects of what it means to be British and the ways in which churches in Britain and the Christian faith could and should respond to a rising tide of White English nationalism. It is a provocative challenge to the all too often tolerated xenophobia, as well as the paucity of response from many church leaders in the UK. This critique is offered via the means of a prophetic, postcolonial model of Black theology that challenges the incipient sense of White entitlement and parochial ‘nativism’ that pervaded much of the referendum debate.
The essays in this book challenge the church and wider society to ensure justice and equity for all, not just a privileged sense of entitlement for some. It will be of keen interest to any scholar of Black, political and liberation theology as well as those involved in cultural studies from a postcolonial perspective. 
New Book: Journeying to Justice.

Journeying to Justice provides the very first comprehensive appraisal of the tumultuous journey towards equity and reconciliation amongst British and Jamaican Baptists across two centuries of Christian missionary work, in which slavery, colonialism and racism has loomed large. This ground-breaking text brings together scholars and practitioners, lay and ordained, peoples from a variety of culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds, all speaking to the enduring truth of the gospel of Christ as a means of effecting social, political and spiritual transformation. Journeying to Justice reminds us that the way of Christ is that of the cross and that grace is always costly and being a disciple demands commitment to God and to others with whom we walk this journey of faith. At a time when the resurgence of nationalism is threatening to polarise many nations this text reminds us that in Christ there is solidarity amongst all peoples.

 ISBN: 9781842279830 Price: £24.99
Presentations and books by Professor Anthony G. Reddie

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