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Dr. Lewis Brogdon is a distinguished religious scholar, public intellectual, author, and prophetic voice on issues such as the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., reparations for African Americans, nihilism in Black America, slavery in the Bible, Black religion, and the enduring legacy of racism in the United States. He has been invited to speak at influential platforms including the Permanent Forum for People of African Descent--an advisory body to the United Nations Human Rights Council -- as well as at numerous media outlets, churches, colleges, and community organizations across the country. Dr. Brogdon has offered prayers at the National Press Club and the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. and delivered keynote addresses at prominent events such as the 2023 Virginia Counselors' Association annual meeting and Dayton, Ohio's city-wide Martin Luther King Jr. dinner. His international teaching includes lectures on Black Studies in Jerusalem, Haiti, and the Bahamas. He has taught his course on Martin Luther King Jr. at four institutions, including a session with Dr. Cornel West, and has lectured at a range of universities including the University of Central Florida, Abilene Christian University, Louisville Seminary, the Interdenominational Theological Center, Claflin University, Radford University, Campbellsville University, Bluefield University, and North Park Theological Seminary. Dr. Brogdon currently serves as Associate Professor of Black Church Studies and Executive Director of the Institute for Black Church Studies at BSK Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Bluefield University in Virginia. A prolific author, his works include Hope on the Brink: Understanding the Emergence of Nihilism in Black America, The Bible in the Ashes of Social Chaos: An Introduction to Problematic Texts, and The Gospel Beyond the Grave: Toward a Black Theology of Hope.
""Lewis Brogdon has written a profound and poignant book that reasserts bold eschatological dimensions into Black theology! From the heartfelt moments of his beloved father's death to the providential sharing of the cross by the African Simon of Cyrene, Brogdon lays bare the genuine Christian witness of agapic love linked to the reconciliation of earthly injustice and eternal life!"" --Cornel West, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary, New York ""The formerly enslaved Baptist leader William J. Simmons, the eponym of Simmons College of Kentucky (HBCU), described American slavery as the 'sum of human villainies.' Slavery was not merely one injustice among many--it was the ultimate manifestation of moral evil and depravity, sustained by its brutal offspring: racial segregation, lynching, economic exploitation, and systemic exclusion. Does the claim that God is equally for both the enslaved and the enslaver render God internally divided? Does the insistence that both the oppressor and the oppressed will ultimately be saved endorse a blind and problematic form of universalism? To dismiss these questions as irrelevant is to retreat into a solipsistic denial of suffering. In The Gospel Beyond the Grave: Toward a Black Theology of Hope, New Testament scholar and theologian Lewis Brogdon confronts these theological tensions head-on, offering a renewed vision of Black theodicy and suffering through an eschatological lens of hope. Not since Major Jones explored a Black theology of hope more than fifty years ago has such a seminal work been written."" --Kevin Cosby, President, Simmons College of Kentucky ""While white folks in the United States are well-practiced in the art of forgetting, Lewis Brogdon represents a memory community of the living and the dead that dares not forget our shared racial history. Neither, surely, does God forget. With courage and breathtaking scriptural insight, Brogdon presses traditional notions of the eschaton to their heart-rending limits. How will God reconcile the unresolved legacy of racism and white supremacy? Are we prepared to imagine a new heaven and new earth as capaciously as God? A truly groundbreaking study in Christian hope, taking no refuge in cheap grace. One of the finest works in constructive theology I've had the honor to read."" --Christopher Pramuk, University Chair of Ignatian Thought, Regis University, Denver ""Lewis Brogdon brilliantly probes a question for the American church all persons concerned about this nation's future must ask: why is 'Americanized' Christianity so weak when facing the issue of race? Brogdon's book beautifully weaves history, personal narrative, and theological inquiry to not only answer the question but offer a robust alternative shaped by the rich soil and water of the radical and redeeming 'Black Church' tradition."" --Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago ""A vital and bright contribution to the study of eschatology--a vision of a new world in which we all will embrace each other that takes seriously our individual and collective sin and injustice. We need Brogdon's honest and fierce account of both reconciliation and of God, a just and incommutable lover of us all."" --Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School, and Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture ""Dr. Lewis Brogdon is a profound thought leader and New Testament scholar whose racial reconciliation work is critical for the days ahead. He deeply interrogates our understandings of idolatry and salvation to make the case for an eschatological reckoning with the theological sin of racism wit
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