Cornel West returning to Union Theological Seminary

[rug]

Cornel West, the peripatetic public intellectual and political activist, plans to finish out a teaching career that has taken him from Yale to Harvard to Princeton by moving back this coming summer to Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, where he began as an assistant professor in 1977.

Dr. West, the author of 19 books, including “Race Matters,” and a ubiquitous television and radio commentator, said he was taking a significant pay cut to become a professor of philosophy and Christian practices at Union.

The school, where the eminent theologian Reinhold Niebuhr taught, is also known as the birthplace of black theology. James H. Cone, a foremost scholar in that tradition, is still on the faculty.

In an interview from Seattle, on his way to visit Occupy protesters there, Dr. West said that his liberal politics were formed in Progressive Baptist churches, and that Union was “the institutional expression of my core identity as a prophetic Christian.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/nyregion/cornel-west-returning-to-union-theological-seminary.html?_r=3

[Jim__]

1. I hope his remark about not having that much time ...

... is a reference to his age and not his health.

[rug]

2. I missed that. I hope you're right.

[PETRUS]

3. Cool. Union is where my dad went.

He studied closely with Reinhold Niebuhr, had so many good things to say about him.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Isn't he on a sabbatial from Princeton for this year?

[rug]

5. I don't know.

Guess I'll poke around some more.