Peter J. Paris
Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics, and Liaison with the Princeton University African American Studies Program
Ph.D., University of Chicago
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The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse |
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The Social Teaching of the Black Churches by Peter
Paris, the Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics, is frequently used
as a required text for introductory courses in theological seminaries across the country.
The book, says its author, “demonstrates the ambiguous nature of Black American
moral, political, and religious life as it struggles to deal with the duality of being
Black on the one hand and American on the other."In addition to his teaching and writing, Dr. Paris, who is an ordained Baptist minister, is an active member of the First Baptist Church in Princeton, serves on the Princeton Affordable Housing Commission, and is president of the board of trustees of the Princeton Young Achievers. President of the Society for the Study of Black Religion and vice president of the Society for Values in Higher Education, he is also a past president of both the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics. Dr. Paris is also the senior editor of the New York University series Religion, Race, and Ethnicity and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He is a member of the board of trustees of New York Theological Seminary and of the Baptist Union of the University of Chicago Divinity School.