The Beckly Lecture 2025 with Anthony Reddie, Professor of Black Theology, University of Oxford
6.45pm, Monday 30 June
Beckbury Suite, Telford International Centre
The lecture will be held as part of the Methodist Conference, but is open to everyone. You can choose to attend on site or watch a livestream online. A recording will be available on this web page afterwards.
It is free to attend.
Professor Anthony G. Reddie is Professor of Black Theology at the University of Oxford, and the Director of the Centre for Black Theology at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He is also an Extraordinary Professor of Theological Ethics with the University of South Africa, and a Methodist local preacher. He has a BA in History and a PhD in Education (with theology) from the University of Birmingham. He is a prolific author of books, articles and book chapters. His latest book, on which this lecture will draw, is Living Black Theology: Decolonizing Knowledge (OUP, June 2025), which promises to offer “a bold reassessment of how we can rethink the past that will challenge our contemporary ways of living… and help us reimage and remake the future, one that is more equitable and just for all peoples.”
Other recent books include Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique (Routledge, 2019), Intercultural Preaching, co-edited with Seidel Abel Boargenes and Pamela Searle (Regent’s Park College, 2021), and Deconstructing Whiteness, Empire and Mission (SCM, 2023), co-edited with Carol Troupe. He is the Editor of Black Theology: An International Journal. He was a recipient of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2020 Lambeth Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship, given for ‘exceptional and sustained contribution to Black Theology in Britain and beyond’.
The Beckly Social Services Lecture takes place every year, as one of the fringe events at the Methodist Conference.
John Henry Beckly, a lay Wesleyan Methodist, founded the trust which is responsible for the lectures in 1926.
According to the original charter of the Beckly Trust, ‘the function of the Lectureship shall be to set forth the social implications of Christianity and to further the development of a Christian sociology and the expressions of the Christian attitude in reference to social, industrial, economic and international subjects’
