Jamie T. Phelps

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Jamie Theresa Phelps, O.P. (born October 24, 1941) is an American Catholic theologian. Phelps, who is African American, is known for her contributions to womanist theology.

Biography

Phelps was born in Alabama, the youngest of six children of a Catholic household. She became an Adrian Dominican Sister in 1959.{{cite web |last1=Scanlon |first1=Leslie |title=For Sister Jamie Phelps, life's joys outweigh struggles {{!}} VISION Vocation Network for Catholic Religious Life & Priesthood {{!}} English |url=https://www.vocationnetwork.org/en/articles/show/4-for-sister-jamie-phelps-life-s-joys-outweigh-struggles |publisher=Vocation Network |accessdate=2 January 2019 |date=2007}}

Phelps earned a bachelor's degree in sociology, science, and mathematics from Sienna Heights University, an MSW from University of Illinois Chicago, and an MA in Theology from St. John's University, Collegville, MN. She subsequently pursued her PhD in systematic theology from Catholic University of America, publishing her dissertation in 1989 as The Mission Ecclesiology of John R. Slattery.{{cite book |last1=Phelps |first1=Jamie T. |title=The Mission Ecclesiology of John R. Slattery: A Study of an African-American Mission of the Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century |date=1989 |publisher=Catholic University of America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U5yknQEACAAJ |language=en}} She has taught at Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, Loyola University, Chicago and Seattle University, and for eight years as Director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies and the Katharine Drexel Professor of Systematic Theology at Xavier University in New Orleans.{{cite web |title=Sister Jamie Phelps Works with Pax Christi to |url=http://www.adriandominicans.org/News/TabId/341/PostId/1081/sister-jamie-phelps-works-with-pax-christi-to-encourage-ethnic-diversity-in-membership.aspx |publisher=Adrian Dominicans |accessdate=2 January 2019 |date=15 November 2016}}

Phelps helped to restart the annual meetings of Black Catholic Theological Symposium in 1991, after two first meetings in 1978 and 1979.{{cite web |title=About us |url=http://blackcatholictheologicalsymposium.org/about-us/ |publisher=Black Catholic Theological Symposium |accessdate=2 January 2019}}

Honors

In 2010, Phelps received the Ann O'Hara Graff Memorial Award from the Women's Seminar in Constructive Theology of the Catholic Theological Society of America.{{cite news |last1=Fox |first1=Thomas C. |title=Dominican Sister Jamie T. Phelps honored at CTSA |url=https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/dominican-sister-jamie-t-phelps-honored-ctsa |publisher=National Catholic Reporter |accessdate=2 January 2019 |language=en |date=11 June 2010}}

Works

{{cite book |last=Phelps |first=Jamie T. |title=The Mission Ecclesiology of John R. Slattery: A Study of an African-American Mission of the Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century |date=1989 |publisher=Catholic University of America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U5yknQEACAAJ |language=en}}
{{cite book|editor-last=Phelps|editor-first=Jamie T.|title=Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk : Contributions of African American Experience and Thought to Catholic Theology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RCvZAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Marquette University Press|isbn=978-0-87462-629-2}}