J.Alfred Smith, Sr. Chair Theology in the Public Square Director, Center for Truth, Racial Healing & Restorative Justice
EDUCATION
- BA, West Virginia Institute of Technology
- MDiv, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
- PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
CONTACT
PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING
Learning is discerning both differences and similarities between transformational processes and transformative experiences. This is what I call the learning journey.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- Morehouse College, Martin Luther King Jr., College of Preachers
- Morehouse College Colloquium of Scholars
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
I am working on developing an antithesis rhetoric to create priestly and prophetic functions. This opens critical space in order to lament conditions caused by perpetual existential crisis and then demand that restorative action be taken on behalf of oppressed people groups.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The Polished King: Living Words of Martin Luther King Jr., Judson Press (2021)
The Art of Eloquence: The Sacred Rhetoric of Gardner C. Taylor, Judson Press (2020)
Reconciliation and Reparation: Preaching Economic Justice, Judson Press (2018)
Lifting the Veil Over Eurocentrism: The Du Boisian Hermeneutic of Double Consciousness, Africa World Press (2014)
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
I enjoy sports, biking, and hiking and jazz masters like Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sade, Dizzy Gillespie and the second Miles Davis Quintet, (Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Tony Williams).
