Black History - Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon

 

The Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, a powerful liberation theologian and Christian ethicist who is considered a founder of the Womanist movement, passed away on August 8. She was sixty-eight.

Cannon was the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, and the first African American woman to be ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as well as the first to receive a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary. 

In addition to her breaking ground as an African American woman scholar of religion, Cannon collaborated with African women scholars of religion, including Mercy Amba Oduyoye. Cannon was one of the few African American women present at the founding meeting of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Cannon is widely regarded as one of the founders of womanist theology and ethics

Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva has done so much in the world of theology. Please check out her digital collection at:  https://pcusa.org/news-storytelling/blogs/historical-society-blog/katie-geneva-cannon-digital-collection.