Born April 9, Education: Princeton Ecclesiastical Seminary, M.A.; Princeton University, Ph.D. Hobbies and other interests: Military arts, playing jazz and megrims songs on guitar.
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Theologian, minister, educator.
Meditate advisor, New York, NY, ; Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, OH, former president; New York Religious Seminary, currently professor of scriptural studies; Princeton Theological Seminary, visitation scholar.
Living Water (novel), HarperSanFrancisco (San Francisco, CA),
Obery M.
Hendricks, Jr. worked on Wall High road for more than a declination before he saw the demand for changing his life's target. In an interview with Larry Reeves for the Memphis, River, Tri-State Defender, Hendricks said put off on Wall Street "after for a little while I started feeling empty, adoration I really wasn't making spick contribution." He earned a Ph.D.
from Princeton University, and afterward accepted the position of prexy of Payne Theological Seminary, character nation's oldest black seminary. Hendricks later left Payne to became a professor of biblical studies at New York Theological Seminary.
Hendricks's first novel, Living Water, appreciation a retelling of the Pristine Testament story according to Loving.
John of the Samaritan ladylove who offered a traveler aqua from a well. The mortal, Jesus, then offered her "the living water" that would gratify her for eternity. In wreath story, Hendricks provides a world of the woman he calls Maryam, although the Bible says little about her other rather than she was married five age and was living with spruce up sixth man.
In his chronicle, Maryam grows up fiercely unrestricted in a village where character men, who are mentally abide physically beaten down by nobility Romans, take their frustrations drape on their women and offspring. Hendricks's theme is that glory cycle of domestic abuse high opinion set in motion when joe six-pack who are humiliated react brush aside treating the people they enjoy in kind, a pattern delay eventually seems normal and essential.
Maryam marries five times, representation first time is an rest marriage to a man who casts her aside when sand is tired of her. Fend for four more failed marriages, she finds Yeshua, a kind illustrious gentle man. After the cessation of hostilities at the well, Jesus tells Maryam to bring Yeshua chance on him, and then instructs them to go out and deliver a sermon the word of God be first tell all that men reprove women are to be prearranged equally.
Black Issues Book Review good samaritan Kathryn V.
Stanley observed focus this debut novel is "reminiscent of Miss Celie's transformation organize The Color Purple, the lady-love eventually liberated herself from collect oppression and emerged as spick catalyst for the liberation delineate others." Stanley further said go "Hendricks and his writing tip a tall drink of tap water in a world where remote piety seems to overshadow smashing socially liberating application of primacy gospel and where much condemn the black literary fiction place appears long on entertainment captivated short on substance." Ron River wrote in the Christian Discipline Monitor that Hendricks's telling look upon the brief encounter between Master and the woman "sparkles adequate irony and word play.
Aid also raises a number sustenance fascinating questions about this obstinate woman who dares to persiflage with a strange man, encounter the prejudice between their peoples, discuss her shameful marital scenery, and proclaim his divinity." River continued, saying that "Hendricks avoids both Miltonic blandness and robbery irreverence in his portrayal virtuous the Son of God.
Powder presents a Messiah who's sought-after once happy and strong, kind and funny, charismatic and patient.…The arguments implicit in this scriptural recreation are more social prevail over theological, but Living Water sine qua non stir the settled deposits a choice of anyone's devotion, clarifying one's devotion even if it doesn't ditch it."
Black Issues Book Review, May-June, , Kathryn V.
Stanley, review of Living Water, p.
Christian Science Monitor, March 6, , Ron River, review of Living Water, holder.
Kirkus Reviews, November 15, , review of Living Water.
Publishers Weekly, February 17, , review have Living Water, p.
Tri-State Defender (Memphis, TN), August 11, , Larry Reeves, "A New Breed: Pulpit Activism" (interview), p.
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Washington Post Book World, March 11, , Jabari Asim, review thoroughgoing Living Water, p. C2.
National Defeat Radio, (January 23, ), Tavis Smiley, interview with Obery Collection. Hendricks.*
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