Lecture to Look at Black Liberation Theology and Traditional African Religions By Betty Gabrielli
			DECEMBER 6, 1999--"Tribal Talk: Black Liberation Theology and Traditional African Religions" is the title of a guest lecture to be presented by Will Coleman tomorrow at 8:00 P.M. in Lord Lounge of Afrikan Heritage House. The speaker is associate professor of theology and hermeneutics at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. His new book is Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African/ American Ways of "Telling the Story" ( Penn State University Press, 2000). An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, Coleman is a governing board member of the Hispanic Summer Program for the Association para la Educacion Theologic Hispana, a much-in-demand speaker, and a frequent contributor to professional journals and publications. He received the B.A. degree from Rhodes College, the M.Div. in theology from Columbia Theological Seminary, and the Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. The Mead-Swing Lectureship Committee and the religion department sponsor the lecture.
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