Abstract
Dr. Copher, President Roberts, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: At the offset I should like to congratulate the Interdenominational Theological Centre for its wisdom in selecting a distinguished Black Liberation Theologian as its President. This is a fitting thing to do since Liberation is what the Black church has been all about. I am pleased to have had the good fortune of knowing Dr. J. DeOtis Roberts as colleague and personal friend for many years and am confident that you have in him one who is not only an internationally recognized scholar, but, also one who is fully committed, both by experience and disposition, to the task of training men and women for ministry in the Black churches.