Black evangelical scholars are all over America and hopefully they will be able to start contributing to conversations about the direction of evangelicalism.

Protestant mainline churches seem to be far more interested in tapping into the resources of African-American theological scholars in ways that evangelicalism seems unwilling or incapable of doing…

Are there black evangelical scholars, with completed Ph.D.s, who are recognized within evangelicalism in the same way that Glaude and Sorett are within other Protestant circles? If not, why not? Is there something different about evangelicalism?

Black theological scholars are able to offer unique contributions to the practice of faith and applications of the biblical text, given the knowledge that our experience of the Trinity is shaped sociologically as well as biblically. Context matters.

Perhaps not recognizing that social context influences how one reads and applies the biblical text keeps many Asian, Latino, and Native American theologians from being asked to contribute within evangelicalism. Perhaps evangelicalism simply lacks such black scholars. But a brief survey of a few large Christian institutions paints a much different picture.

Here are just a few examples:

Dr. Vincent Bacote (Ph.D., Drew University) is an associate professor of Theology and the director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College…

Dr. Eric Washington (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an assistant professor of History at Calvin College…

Dr. Bruce Fields (Ph.D., Marquette University) is an associate professor of biblical and systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill…

Read More: http://online.worldmag.com/2010/10/20/ignored-black-evangelical-scholars/