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Reggie Williams, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Theological Studies

Research Interests

  • Black Theology
  • African American Studies
  • Black Arts
  • The Harlem Renaissance
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer Studies
  • Christian Ethics

Publications and Media Placements

Books

Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance (Baylor University Press, originally published October 2014. Revised edition September, 2021) Outstanding Academic Title - 2015 - Choice Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Winner.

Wholly, Holy: An Ethics After Whiteness (Yale University Press, in progress).

Commentary on Joshua and Judges ( Westminster John Knox. in progress)

The Bonhoeffer Conundrum: A Complicated Christian Engagement with Fascism (Broadleaf Press. In progress)

Justice and the Way of Jesus: Christian Ethics and the Incarnational Discipleship of Glen Stassen. (Co-edited with David Gushee, July, 2020, Orbis Press)

Baptist Peacemaker, Global Christian Ethicist: Essays in Honor of Glen Harold Stassen, Co-Editor/Contributor, with David P. Gushee. Perspectives in Religious Studies 40, no. 2 (July, 2013).

Selected Academic Essays

“The Christian Problem of Race” (Routeledge Handbook of Christianity and Culture. Edited by Jens Zimmerman, Yaakov Ariel, and Gregor Thuswaldner. Forthcoming)

“Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)”
(Handbook of Modern Theology. Edited by Phil Ziegler. T&T Clark, Forthcoming)

“Race and Ethnicity” (The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Fourth Edition. U.K. Oxford University Press. 2022)

“The Racial Script” Word & World: Theology for Christian Ministry. Racial Justice Now (Vol. 41 No 3 Summer, 2021 p. 88-95)

“In The Wake: Reading Bonhoeffer at the Door of No Return.” Lutherische Theologie und Kirche: Vierteljahreszeitschrift für eine an Schrift und Bekenntnis. 44 Jahrgang, 2020 p. 207-223

“Katie Geneva Cannon Was a Way Maker.” Interpretation. 2020;74(1):60-67. doi:10.1177/0020964319876583

“Bonhoeffer and Race” (The Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Edited by Phil Ziegler and Michael Mawson. December 31, 2019)

Selected Public Essays

“Tyre Nichol’s Killing is Not an Exception.” (The Christian Century. February 20, 2023)

“A Letter to my daughter after the fall of Roe” (The Christian Century. July 27, 2022)

“The Racial Script” (Cover Story, The Christian Century. September 15, 2020)

“Is This a Bonhoeffer Moment?” (Cover story, Sojourners Magazine, February 2018)

“Seeing Whiteness: Exercises in Seeing Race” (Cover story, The Christian Century. July 20, 2016)

Select Media Placements

"Black Arts and the Moral Life" Wild Goose Festival, Summer 2023

"Bonhoeffer and the Future of Faith: On Race and Religion: on Homebrewed Christianity with Tripp Fuller"

"Unreading the Racial Script" Santa Barbara Missions Conference, Winter 2021

 

Professional Organizations and Associations

  • International Baptist Theological Studies Center, Amsterdam
  • Senior Research Fellow-2022-present
  • Society for the Study of Black Religion, Board of Directors
  • International Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society, Board of Directors
  • American Academy of Religion, Academic Relations Committee
  • The Christian Century, Contributing Editor