Jamie T. Phelps

Jamie T. Phelps, O.P. (born October 24, 1941) is an African American Catholic theologian.

Jamie T. Phelps

O.P.
Born (1941-10-24) October 24, 1941
NationalityAmerican
OccupationTheologian
Academic background
Alma materCatholic University of America
Academic work
DisciplineSystematic theology
Sub-discipline
School or traditionCatholic theology
Institutions

Biography

Phelps was born in Alabama, the youngest of six children of a Catholic household. She became an Adrian Dominican Sister in 1959.[1]

Phelps pursued her PhD in systematic theology from Catholic University of America, publishing her dissertation in 1989 as The Mission Ecclesiology of John R. Slattery.[2] She has taught at Loyola University, Chicago and Seattle University, and for eight years as Director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies and the Katharine Drexel Professor of Systematic Theology at Xavier University in New Orleans.[3]

Phelps helped to restart the annual meetings of Black Catholic Theological Symposium in 1991, after two first meetings in 1978 and 1979.[4]

Honors

In 2010, Phelps received the Ann O'Hara Graff Memorial Award from the Women's Seminar in Constructive Theology of the Catholic Theological Society of America.[5]

Works
  • Phelps, Jamie T. (1989). The Mission Ecclesiology of John R. Slattery: A Study of an African-American Mission of the Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Catholic University of America.
  • Phelps, Jamie T., ed. (1997). Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk : Contributions of African American Experience and Thought to Catholic Theology. Marquette University Press. ISBN 978-0-87462-629-2.
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References
  1. Scanlon, Leslie (2007). "For Sister Jamie Phelps, life's joys outweigh struggles | VISION Vocation Network for Catholic Religious Life & Priesthood | English". Vocation Network. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  2. Phelps, Jamie T. (1989). The Mission Ecclesiology of John R. Slattery: A Study of an African-American Mission of the Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Catholic University of America.
  3. "Sister Jamie Phelps Works with Pax Christi to". Adrian Dominicans. 15 November 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  4. "About us". Black Catholic Theological Symposium. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  5. Fox, Thomas C. (11 June 2010). "Dominican Sister Jamie T. Phelps honored at CTSA". National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
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