The Lived Theology and Race Workgroup
Victor Anderson
Associate Professor of Christian Ethics (Vanderbilt Divinity School). B.A. History and Theology (Trinity Christian College); M.Div. and Th.M. (Calvin Theological Seminary); Ph.D. Religion (Princeton University).
Professor Anderson's academic interests include: Theology and Ethics, Religion, Ethics and Culture Studies, and Philosophical Theology and Philosophical Ethics. His published work includes two books: Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism (New York: Continuum, 1995) and Cultural Criticism and Pragmatic Theology: Negotiating the Intersections of an American Philosophy of Religion and Public Theology (Albany: State University of New York, 1998). Anderson has also contributed five chapters to books, edited a volume of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 19/2 May (1998), entitled Pragmatism in Recent African American Religious Thought and has published over 25 reviews and articles dealing with topics on Religion, Ethics and Cultural Studies. Currently he is working on two books: Divine Grotesqueries: Five Essays in African American Philosophical Theology (forthcoming, Trinity International Press) and The Priority of Difference and Democracy in African American Religious Cultural Criticism.
In 1999, Anderson gave the John Arthur Hick lectures at United Theological Seminary entitled, "American Public Theology: Three Lecture" and the Templeton Lecture on "Pragmatic Theology and Natural Science at the Intersection of Human Interests", at Kentucky State University.
Former pastor of Grace Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids MI. (1986-1988), Anderson is active in the American Academy of Religion, Society of Christian Philosophers, Society of Christian Ethics, the Highlands Institute for the Study of American Religious Thought, and the Society for the Study of Black Religion. He is also co-editor of the Trinity International Press Series on African American Religious Thought and Life and serves on the editorial Board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.