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Sr. Jamie T. Phelps, OP, PhD

For more information contact:
Edwina Mallery
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church
P.O. Box 2398
Lafayette, LA 70502

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Sister Jamie T. Phelps, O.P., Ph.D., has been a member of the Adrian Dominican Sisters since 1959. Currently she is a Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies of Xavier University of Louisiana.  Prior to this position she has  been a member of the faculty of the Catholic Theological Union and Loyola University, both in Chicago, and  a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Theology in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Dayton, Dayton Ohio.

 Education

Dr. Phelps holds a B.A. in sociology from Siena Heights University, Adrian Michigan, an M.S.W. in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago; a M.A. in Theology from St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from The Catholic University of America. Her formal education has been augmented by participating in national and international seminars and conferences in the United States incl. Puerto Rico; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Jamaica; Toronto, Ottawa &  Nova Scotia, Canada; Enugu, Nigeria;  Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa; Zimbabwe; and  Rome, Italy.

 Publications

She has edited two books, Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk and co-edited Stamped in the Image of God: African Americans as God’s Image in Black.  In addition she has published more than 50 theological articles on issues of the mission of the Church, evangelization, enculturation, Christology, and spirituality. These have appeared in scholarly books and journals including The Bible Today, Missiology, New Theology Review, Theological Studies, U. S. Catholic Historian, Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church edited by Gabriel O’Donnell and Robin Mass, A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Reflections on Evil and Suffering edited by Emilie M. Townes, Taking Down Our Harps: Black Catholics in the United States edited by Diana Hayes and Cyprian Davis, and Black Faith and Public Talk, edited by Dwight N. Hopkins, And The Spirit in the Church and the Word edited by Braford E. Hinze.

 Teaching Fields-

Primary Areas-Systematic Theology: Ecclesiology (nature and mission of Church including evangelization, social justice,  enculturation, communio etc.,)

Trinitarian Theology, Christology, Theology of Grace, Pneumatology, Faith and Revelation, Liberation Theologies

Secondary Areas—Sociology, Culture and Race Theory

 Institutional Development

Sr. Jamie believes in developing institutions to ensure the on-going growth and development of theology and ministry in the Black Catholic Community. She was a founding member of  the Washington-based National Black  Sisters Conference  in 1968; a major consultant for the founding of  The Institute of Black Catholics Studies in 1982;  the founding director  the Catholic Theological Union’s Augustus  Tolton  Pastoral Ministry Program which prepares Black Catholic laypersons for ministry in the Archdiocese of Chicago inaugurated in 1990 and the re-founder of  The Black Catholic Theological Symposium , a national interdisciplinary theological  society for 

Black-Catholics  holding doctoral degrees in  theology and related fields in 1991. 

Ministerial Experience

In the 40 plus years she has devoted to public church ministry, Sr. Jamie has served the church and the community as an educator, social worker, pastoral minister, consultant, lecturer, liturgist, spiritual director, preacher, retreat director, administrator, scholar, theologian, and author.