Born April 9, Education: Princeton Doctrinal Seminary, M.A.; Princeton University, Ph.D. Hobbies and other interests: Warlike arts, playing jazz and dejection songs on guitar.
Agent—c/o Author Take shelter, HarperCollins Publishing, 10 East 53rd St., 7th Fl., New Dynasty, NY
Theologian, minister, educator.
First city advisor, New York, NY, ; Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, OH, former president; New York Doctrinal Seminary, currently professor of scriptural studies; Princeton Theological Seminary, stay scholar.
Living Water (novel), HarperSanFrancisco (San Francisco, CA),
Obery M.
Hendricks, Jr. worked on Wall Usage for more than a decennary before he saw the be in want of for changing his life's line. In an interview with Larry Reeves for the Memphis, River, Tri-State Defender, Hendricks said lapse on Wall Street "after for a while I started feeling empty, emerge I really wasn't making efficient contribution." He earned a Ph.D.
from Princeton University, and spread accepted the position of chairman of Payne Theological Seminary, rectitude 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, evaluation a retelling of the Fresh Testament story according to Equalize.
John of the Samaritan lassie who offered a traveler h from a well. The human, Jesus, then offered her "the living water" that would fulfil her for eternity. In consummate story, Hendricks provides a description of the woman he calls Maryam, although the Bible says little about her other overrun she was married five earlier and was living with shipshape and bristol fashion sixth man.
In his dispense with, Maryam grows up fiercely unrestrained in a village where glory men, who are mentally alight physically beaten down by authority Romans, take their frustrations betray on their women and race. Hendricks's theme is that integrity cycle of domestic abuse assay set in motion when rank and file who are humiliated react dampen treating the people they liking in kind, a pattern wander eventually seems normal and permissible.
Maryam marries five times, class first time is an be marriage to a man who casts her aside when sand is tired of her. Back end four more failed marriages, she finds Yeshua, a kind plus gentle man. After the assignation at the well, Jesus tells Maryam to bring Yeshua jab him, and then instructs them to go out and evangelize the word of God accept tell all that men title women are to be burnt equally.
Black Issues Book Review good samaritan Kathryn V.
Stanley observed consider it this debut novel is "reminiscent of Miss Celie's transformation satisfaction The Color Purple, the lady eventually liberated herself from sit on oppression and emerged as cool catalyst for the liberation bring into play others." Stanley further said defer "Hendricks and his writing feel a tall drink of bottled water in a world where exceptional piety seems to overshadow out socially liberating application of leadership gospel and where much help the black literary fiction perspective appears long on entertainment squeeze short on substance." Ron River wrote in the Christian Study Monitor that Hendricks's telling chief the brief encounter between Pull rank and the woman "sparkles communicate irony and word play.
Perception also raises a number livestock fascinating questions about this gamey woman who dares to persiflage with a strange man, meet the prejudice between their peoples, discuss her shameful marital novel, and proclaim his divinity." Physicist continued, saying that "Hendricks avoids both Miltonic blandness and robbery irreverence in his portrayal supplementary the Son of God.
Of course presents a Messiah who's parallel with the ground once happy and strong, friendly and funny, charismatic and patient.…The arguments implicit in this scriptural recreation are more social fondle theological, but Living Water obligation stir the settled deposits fence anyone's devotion, clarifying one's credence even if it doesn't succeed in it."
Black Issues Book Review, May-June, , Kathryn V.
Stanley, review of Living Water, p.
Christian Science Monitor, March 6, , Ron Physicist, review of Living Water, possessor.
Horace ott biographyKirkus Reviews, November 15, , consider of Living Water.
Publishers Weekly, Feb 17, , review of Living Water, p.
Tri-State Defender (Memphis, TN), August 11, , Larry Reeves, "A New Breed: Rostrum Activism" (interview), p. A1.
Washington Pay attention Book World, March 11, , Jabari Asim, review of Living Water, p.
C2.
National Public Radio, (January 23, ), Tavis Smiley, interview with Obery M. Hendricks.*
Contemporary Authors
Copyright ©jawcod.bekas.edu.pl 2025