Whiteness is the Sea, not the Shark:
a postcolonial critique of British Methodism
With Anthony Reddie
This lecture was held on Monday 30 June 2025. A recording is available below.
Professor Anthony G. Reddie is Professor of Black Theology at the University of Oxford, and the Director of the Centre for Black Theology at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He is also an Extraordinary Professor of Theological Ethics with the University of South Africa, and a Methodist local preacher. He has a BA in History and a PhD in Education (with theology) from the University of Birmingham. He is a prolific author of books, articles and book chapters. His latest book, on which this lecture will draw, is Living Black Theology: Decolonizing Knowledge (OUP, June 2025), which promises to offer “a bold reassessment of how we can rethink the past that will challenge our contemporary ways of living… and help us reimage and remake the future, one that is more equitable and just for all peoples.”
Other recent books include Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique (Routledge, 2019), Intercultural Preaching, co-edited with Seidel Abel Boargenes and Pamela Searle (Regent’s Park College, 2021), and Deconstructing Whiteness, Empire and Mission (SCM, 2023), co-edited with Carol Troupe. He is the Editor of Black Theology: An International Journal. He was a recipient of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2020 Lambeth Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship, given for ‘exceptional and sustained contribution to Black Theology in Britain and beyond’.