Reggie Williams

Reggie Williams is associate professor of black theology at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance, which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Title in theology, in 2014 (revised edition, 2021). The book examines the impact of exposure to Black Church in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was killed by the Nazis in 1945 for his resistance. Williams’s research interests are black arts, black studies, black theology, black church studies, and Christian ethics. He is a board member of the English Language section of the International Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society, former board member of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, and the Society for Christian Ethics. Williams and his wife, Stacy, are the parents of a son, Darion, and a daughter, Simone.