'To read him is to glimpse an experience of God through a lens quite unlike that of our Society’s white majority.' Photo: Book cover of Duppy Conqueror, by Robert Beckford (My Theology series)
Duppy Conqueror, by Robert Beckford (My Theology series)
Author: Robert Beckford. Review by Frank Regan
by Frank Regan
17th December 2021
Robert Beckford is a black theologian and broadcaster. His theological project is to rethink liberation theologies for second and third generation black British people. ‘How can people racialised as black conceive God, Jesus, and the Spirit within our social and political worlds?’ he asks. Can theology – talking about God – confront racial injustice, social inequality and environmental degradation?
