Anthony Bradley


Anthony B. Bradley is an American author and was professor of religion, theology and ethics at the King's College in New York City, where he also served as the chair of the Religious and Theological Studies program and directed the Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program. He is also a research fellow for The Acton Institute.

Early life and education

Bradley has a BS in biological sciences from Clemson University, a Master of Divinity from Covenant Theological Seminary, a Master of Arts in Ethics and Society from Fordham University, and PhD from Westminster Theological Seminary. Before coming to the King's, he was an assistant professor of theology at the Covenant Seminary from 2005 to 2009, where he also directed the Francis A. Schaeffer Institute.

Career

Bradley's 2013 book, Aliens in the Promised Land, is a minority-led conversation about racism in the U.S. evangelical church.
In his 2015 book Runaway Radical, author Jonathan Hollingsworth identifies Bradley as the first to identify a new kind of evangelical legalism, in which young people feel compelled to enact their devotion to the Gospel by such radical acts as giving away all of their possessions, or dropping out of university to dedicate their lives to serving the poor.

Writings

  • Heroic Fraternities: How College Men Can Save Universities and America - 2023
  • Liberating Black Theology: The Bible and the Black Experience in America. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2010.
  • Black and Tired: Essays on Race, Politics, Culture, and International Development. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011. ; C-SPAN, Book TV
  • The Political Economy of Liberation: Thomas Sowell and James Cone on the Black Experience. New York, NY: Peter Lang Inc, International Academic Publishers, 2012.
  • Keep Your Head Up: America's New Black Christian Leaders, Social Consciousness, and the Cosby Conversation. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012.
  • Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership is Overlooked in White Christian Churches. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R, 2013. ; Edited by Bradley who also wrote the first chapter.
  • John Rawls and Christian Social Engagement: Justice as Unfairness. London: Lexington, 2014.
  • Black Scholars in White Space: New Vistas in African American Studies from the Christian Academy. Cascade Books: Oregon, 2015.
  • Something Seems Strange: Critical Essays on Christianity, Public Policy, and Contemporary Culture. Wipf and Stock: Oregon, 2016.
  • Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration: Hope from Civil Society. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2018.