Tenth Anniversary Reflections on Robert Beckford's Jesus is Dread: Black Theology and Black Culture in Britain

Abstract

This essay is a response to Robert Beckford's Jesus is Dread. At the time the book was published the author was a theological student (seminarian in some parts of the world), training to be a priest within the Church of England at Queen's College, Birmingham. She took classes with Robert Beckford and witnessed the burgeoning development of the plethora of ideas that eventually gave rise to the first, fully fledged Black theology text in Britain. This is an essentially personal account of one student who "was there" when this landmark work was first birthed.