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Obery M. Hendricks Jr.

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Obery M. Hendricks Jr.
Born
Obery Mack Hendricks Jr.

(1953-04-09) April 9, 1953 (age 71)
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic Party
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Methodist)
ChurchAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church
Ordained1995
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisA Discourse of Domination[1] (1995)
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
School or traditionChristian socialism[2]
Institutions

Obery Mack Hendricks Jr. (born 1953) is a visiting research scholar at Columbia University. Before taking this position he was a professor at Drew University and a visiting professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has also served as president of Payne Theological Seminary, the oldest African-American theological institution.[3] He is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.[4]

A former Wall Street investment executive, Hendricks received his PhD from Princeton University. He is currently a spokesperson who has been featured on C-SPAN, PBS, NPR, the Bloomberg network, hip hop stations and more. He has been a featured writer as well as an editor or editorial advisor for multiple publications including the award-winning Tikkun magazine. He is a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee and an Affiliated Scholar in the "Faith and Public Policy Initiative" at the Center for American Progress.[5]

Hendricks currently lives in New York City.

Books

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  • Living Water, HarperOne, 2003. ISBN 978-0-06-000087-5
  • The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted, Doubleday, 2006. ISBN 978-0-385-51665-5
  • The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic, Orbis Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1-57075-940-6
  • Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith, Beacon Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0-80705-740-7

References

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  1. ^ Hendricks, Obery M. (1995). A Discourse of Domination: A Socio-rhetorical Study of the Use of Ioudaios in the Forth Gospel (PhD thesis). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University. OCLC 36202347.
  2. ^ "Jesus of Nazareth, Revolutionary Socialist: An Interview with Obery Hendricks". 11 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Obery Hendricks" Author. Harper Collins. 8 Feb. 2008.
  4. ^ "Obery Hendricks." The American Program Bureau. 15 Feb. 2008.
  5. ^ "Obery Hendricks." The American Program Bureau. 15 Feb. 2008
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