Cain Hope Felder Explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Reverend
Cain Hope Felder
Birth Date:	9 June 1943
Birth Place:	Aiken, South Carolina, U.S.
Death Place:	Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Module:	Child: yes Religion: Christianity (Methodist)
Module2:	Child: yes Thesis Title: Wisdom, Law and Social Concern in the Epistle of James^[1] Thesis Year: 1982 Influences: James H. Cone^[2] Discipline: Biblical studies Sub Discipline: New Testament studies Notable Students: Brian Blount^[3]

Cain Hope Felder (June 9, 1943 – October 1, 2019)^[4] was an American biblical scholar, serving as professor of New Testament language and literature and editor of The Journal of Religious Thought at the Howard University School of Divinity.^[5] He also served as chair of the Doctor of Philosophy program and immediate past chair of the Doctor of Ministry program. He had been on Howard's faculty from 1981 until his retirement in 2016.

Biography

Prior to coming to Howard, he taught within the Department of Biblical Studies (1978–1981) at Princeton Theological Seminary. From 1969 to 1972, Felder worked as the first executive director of Black Methodists for Church Renewal, the black caucus of the United Methodist Church, which was headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally ordained as an elder in the United Methodist Church, he served as pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in New York City (1975–1977). Until his death, Felder served as an elder in the Second Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, where he was appointed by Bishop Adam Jefferson Richardson as the resident biblical scholar for the district.

From 1998 to 2001, Felder served as chair of the implementation panel for the National Center for African American Heritage & Culture at Howard University. He was on Howard's faculty from 1981 to 2016, having come to Washington from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he taught as a member of the Department of Biblical Studies (1978–1981).

His publications include True to Our Native Land (Augsburg Fortress, May, 2007); Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family^[6] (Orbis Books, 1989) – 16th printing; and The Original African Heritage Study Bible (Winston Publishing Company, 1993). Felder held Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Philosophy degrees in biblical languages and literature from Columbia University in New York; a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York; a Diploma of Theology from Mansfield College at the University of Oxford in England; a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, Greek, and Latin from Howard University in Washington, D.C. He received his secondary education at the Boston Latin School.

Felder died on October 1, 2019, at his Mobile, Alabama, at the age of 76.^[7]

Selected works

Thesis

• Felder . Cain Hope . Wisdom, law and social concern in the Epistle of James. Ph.D. . Columbia University . 1982 . 9592965 .

Books

• Book: Felder . Cain Hope . 3 . Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family . Bishop Henry McNeal Turner studies in North American Black religion . 3 . Maryknoll, NY . Orbis Books . 1989 . 9780883445358 . 18983550 . registration .
• Book: Felder . Cain Hope . 3 . Stony the Road We Trod: African American biblical interpretation . Minneapolis . Fortress Press . 1991 . 9780800625016 . 23766878 .
• Book: Felder . Cain Hope . 3 . The Original African Heritage Study Bible: King James Version: with special annotations relative to the African/Edenic perspective . Nashville, TN . Winston Publishing Company . 1993 . 9781555236748 . 312468327 .
• Book: Felder . Cain Hope . 3 . Race, racism, and the biblical narratives . Facets . Minneapolis . Fortress Press . 2002 . 9780800635787 . 50912494 .

Edited by

• Book: Felder . Cain Hope . 3 . Blount . Brian K. . Brian K. Blount . Martin . Clarice J. . Clarice J. Martin . Powery . Emerson B. . Emerson B. Powery . True to Our Native Land: an African American New Testament commentary . Minneapolis . Augsburg Fortress . 2007 . 9780800634216 . 84152841 .

Notes and References

1. Felder . Cain Hope . 1982 . Wisdom, Law and Social Concern in the Epistle of James . PhD . New York . Columbia University . 861103570.
2. Web site: July 2011 . Dr. Cain Hope Felder . Washington . Destiny – Pride . March 11, 2019 . December 13, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191213201833/https://www.destiny-pride.org/spotlight/july-2011 . dead .
3. Book: Smith, Mitzi J. . 2015 . Introduction . Smith . Mitzi J. . I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader . Eugene, Oregon . Cascade Books . 6 . 978-1-62564-745-0.
4. Book: Myers, William H. . 2015 . 1991 . The Irresistible Urge to Preach: A Collection of African American "Call" Stories . Eugene, Oregon . Wipf and Stock . 104 . 978-1-4982-7835-5.
5. News: Interview with Dr. Cain Hope Felder of Howard University. December 28, 2010. Christian Post. November 7, 2005.
6. News: Changing Attitudes in the Church. https://web.archive.org/web/20121104201724/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73888037.html?dids=73888037:73888037&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+17,+1989&author=DOROTHY+GILLIAM&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Changing+Attitudes+in+the+Church&pqatl=google. dead. November 4, 2012. December 28, 2010. The Washington Post. July 17, 1989.
7. Web site: Obituary: Dr. Cain Hope Felder. Legacy. October 1, 2019.