C. Shelby Rooks Address on the State of Black Theological Education, October 23, 1980

00:00:03 Audio begins with a prayer by unidentified man, who introduces C. Shelby Rooks.|00:01:42 C. Shelby Rooks gives an address about fact books in theological education. He talks about his career hopes and career history.|00:08:11 Talks about Black faculty members at predominately white seminaries.|00:10:11 Talks about changes in seminaries since 1960.|00:20:26 Talks about the small pool of Black religious scholars.|00:29:06 Talks about Virginia Union and ITC growth in school size.|00:29:54 Talks about perception of Black students on theological education.|00:34:22 Talks about Charles Copher’s five elements of Society for the Study of Black Religion’s dream.|00:44:47 Talks about relational issues and the response by Black theological educators to the potential divisive pluralism.|00:46:20 Chuck Long talks about Black theology as it relates to the Black church.|00:48:55 Unidentified female talks about publishing.|00:50:34 James Cone talks about writing because of the passion and worth of the work.|01:07:48 Professor Robert Bennett talks about the Old Testament and Africa.|01:09:12 Bennett talks about personal considerations and the reason he is in Biblical field.|01:14:10 Talks about methodological considerations and western intellectual history.|01:27:36 Audio ends.