Jamie T. Phelps

Jamie Theresa Phelps, O.P. (born October 24, 1941) is an American Catholic theologian. Phelps, who is African American, is known for her contributions to womanist theology.

Biography

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

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. 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.

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

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.

Works

References

1941 births

Living people

Catholic University of America alumni

African-American theologians

Religious studies scholars

Women Christian theologians

Womanist theologians

20th-century American Roman Catholic theologians

21st-century American Roman Catholic theologians

African-American Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns

21st-century American Roman Catholic nuns

20th-century African-American women writers

20th-century American women writers

20th-century African-American writers

21st-century African-American women writers

21st-century American women writers

21st-century African-American writers

African-American Catholic consecrated religious

21st-century African-American academics

21st-century American academics