Joseph William Black, Jr

Address

PO Box 24686  Karen 00502  Nairobi, Kenya

+254 (0)723 094936

josephwmblack@gmail.com

wblack@spu.ac.ke

Nationality:USA

Date of Birth:30 April 1959

Family:  Married to Dr. Stephanie Black, 31 July 1982; two daughters, Linnea (1988) and Caroline (1990)

Qualifications

 Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2000

Faculty of History, Fitzwilliam College

Supervisor:  Professor Eamon Duffy

 M. Div. summa cum laude, Christian History and Theological Studies, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary , South Hamilton, Massachusetts, 1989

 B.A. magna cum laude, Medieval and Renaissance Intellectual History,Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1981

 Experience

2012 - Present   

Senior Lecturer in Theology and History, St. Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya

2011-2012

Adjunct Lecturer in Historical and Theological Studies, St. Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya

2008-2010

Lecturer in Historical and Theological Studies, Africa International University, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya

2008

Visiting Lecturer in the History of Medieval Christianity, South Asian Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS), Bangalore, India

2001-2008

Lecturer in History and Historical Theology, Evangelical Theological College (2001-2003) and the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2001-2008)

1997

Administrator, Cambridge Summer School of Theology, Cambridge, UK

1996-2000

PhD studies, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Previous employment history available upon request

Publications

 Authority:  A History of How Christians Have Justified What They Believe and Do – in process.

‘Offended Christians, Anti-Mission Churches and Colonial Politics:  One Man’s Story of the Messy Birth of the Orthodox Church in Kenya’, submitted for publication.

 ‘Richard & Margaret: Difficult man + difficult woman = model marriage,’ Christian History & Biography (Issue 89, 2006), 35-37.

Reformation Pastors: Richard Baxter and the Ideal of the Reformed Pastor (Carlisle, UK: Paternoster Press, 2004).

‘Thomas Doolittle,’ ‘Thomas Wadsworth,’ ‘Christopher Cartwright,’ ‘Edward Polhill,’ ‘John Hinckley,’ ‘Richard Moore,’ ‘Andrew Parsons,’ in Brian Harrison and Colin Matthews (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in Association with the British Academy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

‘From Martin Bucer to Richard Baxter: “Discipline” and Reformation in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England,’ Church History 70:4 (2001), 644-673.

‘Richard Baxter’s Bucerian “Reformation”, ’Westminster Theological Journal, 63 (2001), 327-349.

References

Professor Eamon Duffy

Magdalene College

Cambridge  CB3 OA6

United Kingdom

ed1000@cam.ac.uk

+44 (0)1223 314 837

Professor James Nkansah-Obrempong

Academic Dean

Africa International University

PO Box 24686 Karen 00502

Nairobi, Kenya

james.nkansah@negst.edu

+254 (0)734 419086

Professor John Morrill

Selwyn College

Cambridge  CB3 9DQ

United Kingdom 

Jsm1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk

 +44 (0)1223 335846

Additional references available upon request.