GERALD O. WEST

Gerald West led the team that designed the Bible studies that were an integral and transformative element of the global Anglican Communion’s Lambeth Conference 2008. He is Professor in the School of Theology, University of Kwazulu-Natal and Director of the Ujamaa Center for Biblical and Theological Community Development and Research in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. His books include Reading Other-wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities; Biblical Hermeneutics of Liberation: Modes of Reading the Bible in the South African Context; and The Academy of the Poor: Toward a Dialogical Reading of the Bible.

Videos:

• Interview with Gerald O. West
• Gerald O. West Biography

Recommended Reading:

• Reading Other-wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities

Other 2011 Keynote Speakers:

• Walter Brueggemann
• Mary Gordon
• Teresa Okure
• Steed V. Davidson, Preacher