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Kenyatta R. Gilbert, Ph.D. |
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 | Dr. Kenyatta R. Gilbert is assistant professor of Homiletics at the Howard University School of Divinity and associate faculty at the Cathedral College of Preachers. He earned his B.A. from Baylor University, and both his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. |
He received the Jagow Scholarship in Preaching, Jagow Prize in Homiletics and Speech, David B. Watermulder Prize in Church Leadership, American Baptist Churches of New Jersey’s Doctoral Grant, Princeton’s Doctoral Fellowship in Practical Theology, and The Fund for Theological Education’s Dissertation Fellowship. He was also a recipient of the Louisville Institute's 2009 First Book Grant for Minority Scholars. | He is an ordained Baptist minister with 15 years of parish and non-parish pastoral experience. Prior to joining the Divinity School’s faculty, he served congregations in Texas, New York, New Jersey, and Kenya. Dr. Gilbert specializes in the history, theory and practice of African American preaching. His research focuses on the theology and rhetoric of prophetic preaching, African American religion, hermeneutical theory and constructive practical theology. | His publications include sermons, “A Date with Destiny” and “The Giving Tree”; and articles, “The Prophetic and the Priestly: Reclaiming Preaching as Practical Theology,” “Suspicion” in Abingdon Press’s New Interpreter’s Bible Handbook of Preaching, and “Making the Unseen Seen: Pedagogy and Aesthetics in African American Prophetic Preaching” in Homiletic Vol. 34, No. 2. He is also a contributor to The African American Pulpit Lectionary and Feasting on the Word: Lectionary Commentary Series, Volume VI. Dr. Gilbert is currently working on two books, tentatively titled, “Cry Out!: Prophetic Word and African American Preaching” and “The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching: The Threefold Cord” (forthcoming 2011 Fortress). | Dr. Gilbert is married to Dr. Allison Blow Gilbert, a board certified pediatrician. The Gilberts have three daughters, Olivia Copeland, Ella Jane and Ava Sage. |
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