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Originally posted by James Wesley Chester:
Moreover, I attempted to show the simple ascription of none "radical" churches as quietistic, as irrelevant, palliative, or "opiate", as seriously flawed functionally.---kresge
Congrats on your presentation.
Do I feel the 'chill' of Dr. Cain?
I didn't 'come to grund' with all of what you said, but that last statement seems aggressive to the prevailing church.
PEACE
Jim Chester
No, Dr. Felder was not there. It was more a critique of James Cone. Dr. Cone got to the session late, so missed my paper as it was the first. He was chatting with my adviser though during the question and answer time. I spoke to him briefly, and said that I definitely wanted his feed back before I published. It is likely what we may still disagree, but as Theodore Walker holds, criticism within the academy is (or at least should be about) win/win scenario's.
The attendance was pretty good this year all around. I sat in one section next to Cone and just in front of Cornel West. He was not presenting this year, but one of the papers in this particular section was a comparison of his project with that of Soren Kierkegaard as it relates to suffering and dread.
Other Black religionists in attendance included lots of folks that I have mentioned and referenced here in the past. Vincent Wimbush, Stephen Reid, Randall Bailey, Gay Byron, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Emile Townsend, Dwight Hopkins, Eddie Glaude, Anthony Pinn (my advisor), M Shawn Copeland, Theodore Walker, Stacy Floyd Thomas, Barbara Holmes, Henry James Young, Kelly Brown Douglas, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Charles Long, Peter Paris, Traci C. West, Lynn Westfield and Cheryl J. Sanders to name a few. Some names to be on the lookout for include Monica Coleman (process and womanist theology) and Darnise Martin (her dissertation is called Beyond Christianity and was snatched up quickly and published by NYU).