Dwight Hopkins

Dwight N. Hopkins is Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has authored Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion; Shoes That Fit Our Feet: Sources for a Constructive Black Theology; and Down, Up & Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology. Hopkins is co-editor of a number of collections of essays.

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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

The preacher and the politician

The recent formal departure of Senator Barack Obama from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago will no doubt resurface a debate over Obama’s relation to Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Who could have predicted such volatility over race, faith, and justice in a campaign for the highest office in the land? The unprecedented introduction of race, religion, the black church, and black liberation theology into the presidential contest offers us an occasion to reflect on the role of the preacher, the politician, traditional race relations, and multicultural America. Obama and Wright exhibit this contrast.

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