Thursday, February 27, 2014

Reverend Dr Cain Hope Felder...Minister,Educator,Historian,Theologian,Author

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True to Our Native Land
Cain Hope Felder is Professor of New Testament Language & Literature and Editor of The Journal of Religious Thought and Chair of the Academic Standing and Doctoral Programs committees at the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, DC. His listing of accomplishments is equally remarkable. Some of his publications include the first African American New Testament Commentary True to Our Native Land (Augsburg Fortress, 2007); Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family (Orbis Books, 1989)-18th printing; Editor, Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation (Fortress Press, 1991)-14th printing;The Seasons of Lent: Proclamation Commentary (Fortress Press, 1991); The Original African Heritage Study Bible (Winston Derek, 1993); "Commentary on the Epistle of James" in The International Bible Commentary (Liturgical Press, 1998); Consulting Editor and Contributor, African American Jubilee Bible (New York: American Bible Society) 1999; and Co-Editor Jubilee Legacy Bible (Nashville: Townsend Press, (2000); Introduction and Critical Notes on the Epistle of James in the New Oxford Annotated Bible (2001); Epistle to Philemon in the New Interpreter’s Bible, Vol. XI, 2001; and Race, Racism and the Biblical Narratives (Fortress Press, 2002). Felder taught at Princeton Theological Seminary and was the first national director of the United Methodist Black Caucus. He is also founder of the Biblical Institute for Social Change, Washington, D.C. – an organization dedicated to inform, inspire, affirm and transform the Christian community through scholarship and research. This organization serves as a catalyst for a renewed interest in Biblical Interpretation in diverse quarters: prisons, half way houses, local churches, and campus ministry settings.

From 1969 to 1972, Dr. Felder worked as the first National Director of the United Methodist Black Caucus which was headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally ordained as an Elder in the United Methodist Church, he served as Pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in New York City (1975-1977). Currently, Rev. Felder now serves as an Elder in the Second Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church where he has been appointed by Bishop Adam Jefferson Richardson as the Resident Biblical Scholar for the District. He is an active member of Hemingway Memorial AME Church, located in District Heights, MD.

From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Felder served as Chair of the Implementation Panel for the National Center for African American Heritage & Culture at Howard University. He has been on Howard's faculty since 1981, having come to Washington from Princeton Theological Seminary where he taught as a member of the Department of Biblical Studies (1978-1981). His educational background is extensive: Ph.D., M. Phil., Columbia University in Biblical Languages and Literature; Diploma of Theology, Oxford University, England; Master of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, New York; BA in Philosophy and Classics, Howard University, Washington, DC; and Diploma, Boston Latin School.

Maintaining dual residences in Washington, DC and his home haven in Mobile, Alabama that he shares with his bride, Dr. Jewell, affectionately called “Dr. J.”, Dr. Felder is the proud father of one daughter, Miss Akidah Felder, a graduate of Spellman College and current dual Masters student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/interview-with-dr-cain-hope-felder-of-howard-university-7716/
http://www.divinity.howard.edu/2_faculty_felder.shtml

1 comment:

  1. I found that Black historians do not provide enough biblical truth and facts, and this saddens me. Because of their neglect of not revealing all the truth, that many are aware of brought, on People like Dante Fortson, who is not educated in Biblical facts. Nor does he understand the linguistic and true grammar that goes into the study of the so-called Hebrew language which is truly the Phoenicians language. It is tiring to hear that Abraham, who was a Chaldean (Kasdim) according to the Bible had the people of Canaan and parts of Africa speak his language. The Bible also stated that he came from "Ur of the Kasdim," who migrated from southern Turkey. Gen Chapter 11 gives in detail the ancestry of Abraham. The word Hebrew meant that Abraham's people (the Kasdim who we call Chaldeans), were children of Eber! How, I ask could one man happen to change the entire language of the Canaanites to a Semitic language? This is impossible and true Biblical historians know that the Elamites language before the Persians (an Aryan nation), took over the kingdom; today has never been deciphered. Today scholars call the language of the Black people Afro Asiatic knowing that the Asian speaking people (who descended from Canaan), yet want to claim that a people who have similar dialects across middle Africa, to all of Palestine (Biblically the land of the Philistines who were Black people), including Lebanon (the originally land of the Phoenicians). No one’s mentions the Black women that produce the ancestors of YAHSHUA, from Tamara, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba! Finally, the most important Black man was Melchizedek who was both King and Priest of Jerusalem (also called Salem). David did not built the city, he extended it. There is more that I could provide but this comment is not large enough!

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