Abstract
Many of you are aware of the fact that Dr. Roberts was my teacher at Howard University Divinity School and also the first reader for my dissertation which resulted in my book, Redemption in Black Theology (Judson Press, 1979).
One might conclude, then, that my review of his book Roots of A Black Future: Family and Church will be influenced by those previous
relationships. This is not the case. When I was researching and writing my dissertation on an occasion of my meeting with Dr. Roberts I felt compelled to inform him that I did not agree fully with all of the positions which he articulated in Liberation And Reconciliation: A Black
Theology. Without hesitation he responded: “Brother Moyd my aim is to make scholars not disciples.” That statement was liberating. (Of course, I was aware of the fact that “making scholars” depended upon the materials at hand.) That statement did provide the freedom for the stating of my disagreement with my teacher. I still enjoy that freedom as I review his book today.