Katie geneva cannon biography of william

This collection represents in a single online location personal records of Katie's that she intended to distribute among Presbyterian Historical Society, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary in New York. Featured image: Katie G. Cannon preaching, circa Skip to main content.

Katie geneva cannon biography of william

Katie G. Cannon Collection Primary tabs View active tab. Grid view List view. About this Collection Katie Geneva Cannon was the first Black woman ordained a minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church. Belle Hawkes Papers Carroll R. Special Committee on Forms and Services Records, circa Sheppard Papers William M. Baird Papers Presbyterian women.

Search box. Cannon on WHYY, circa Cannon's first full-length book, Black Womanist Ethics , published in , was a groundbreaking text, and is considered to have launched the field of womanist ethics. Cannon died from acute leukemia in Richmond, Virginia on August 8, She was Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.

Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikiquote Wikidata item. American theologian — The Reverend Doctor. Kannapolis , North Carolina , US. Richmond, Virginia , U. Barber—Scotia College Johnson C. Roger L. Shinn [ 1 ] Beverly Wildung Harrison [ 1 ]. Black theology womanist theology. Early life [ edit ]. Education and career [ edit ].

Influence on womanist theology and ethics [ edit ]. Publications [ edit ]. E85 G63 I64 Katie's canon : womanism and the soul of the black community 25th anniversary ed. B53 C36 Expanded 25th anniversary edition Also available as an e-book: Search Summon. Katie's canon : womanism and the soul of the Black community by Katie G. Cannon Call Number: PS N5 C36 Pinn Editor ; Katie G.

O94 Also available as an e-book: Search Summon. On the anvil of her inner being— alongside such pioneering scholars as Dr. Delores Williams, the Rev. Emilie Townes, and the Rev. Jacquelyn Grant—she forged Womanist ethics—a term coined by Alice Walker—fashioning the perspectives and literary traditions of Black women into revolutionary discourse for the church, academy and society at large.

She deployed methods of Christian social ethics to new advantage, creating space for the unheard to be heard, the inconsolable to be comforted, the beaten down to rise up and the disenfranchised to discover and celebrate their own innate moral wisdom. Smith Theological Seminary. She was ordained April 24, , in Shelby, N.