David Justice, Ph.D.

Full Time Temporary Lecturer in Baylor University's Honors College

Publications


Journal 

Justice, David. “An Anti-Political Revolution: Reading the Azusa Street Revival and Civil Rights Movement within the Black Radical Tradition.” Black Theology: An International Journal. (October 1, 2025): 1-20. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14769948.2025.2564532 
Middleton, Darren et. al (including David Justice). “Teach This Music: Faith, Learning, and the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core.” Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal. Accepted for Publication - Forthcoming in Fall 2025.
Justice, David. “The Sword that Heals: King, the Black Radical Tradition, and the Destructive Power of the Beloved Community,” Black Theology Papers Project Black Theology Papers Project, vol. 7, no. 1 (2021)

Edited Collection

Justice, David. “Martin Luther King at the Intersection of the Black Prophetic and Black Liberal Arts Traditions” To be published in the Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and Human Rights at the University of Georgia Press. Publication expected in 2026.

"Let Justice Roll Down." In Faith Across Traditions: Essays from Ten Years of Dialogue at Conciliar Post, ed. Jacob J. Prahlow (Saint Louis, MO: Arise Press, 2024)
Book page on Amazon

Online 

“On Prophetic Rage,” Sightings, The University of Chicago Divinity School, October 21, 2021,
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/articles/prophetic-rage-0

“Negating Racial Capitalism Through the Beloved Community,” The Bias Magazine, Institute for Christian Socialism, January 18, 2021,
http://christiansocialism.com/martin-luther-king-jr-racial-capitalism-negative-theology/.

Book Reviews

To Love Our Neighbors: Radical Practices in Solidarity, Sufficiency, and Sustainability by Joe Blosser, forthcoming in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.

A Darkly Radiant Vision: The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK by Gary Dorrien in Reading Religion, published March 19, 2024, https://readingreligion.org/9780300264524/.

Nonviolence Before King: The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle by Anthony C. Siracusa in Reading Religion, published May 20, 2022, http://readingreligion.org/9781469663005/nonviolence-before-king/

The #BlackLivesMatter Movement: Toward an Intersectional Theology by Edward Donalson III in Reading Religion, published July 9, 2021, https://readingreligion.org/books/blacklivesmatter-movement

America's Unholy Ghosts: The Racist Roots of Our Faith and Politics by Joel Edward Goza in Reading Religion, published August 11, 2020, https://readingreligion.org/books/americas-unholy-ghosts

Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of  Black Theologian by James Cone in Reading Religion, published July 31, 2019,  http://readingreligion.org/books/said-i-wasnt-gonna-tell-nobody

Dissertation, MA Theses, and Previous Publication

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