‘Black Theology is taking Christianity back to its origins’

Anthony Reddie has made history by becoming the first Black professor in the University of Oxford’s theology department. But what is Black Theology, and how can it serve the Church? 

By his own admission, it was never Anthony Reddie’s ambition to become an academic. 

He was a community worker with a gift for words, who dreamt of making it as a playwright or a comedy writer. But today – three decades into a career in academia that has seen him lecture all over the world – he has made history by becoming the University of Oxford’s first-ever professor of Black Theology.