The Genealogical Vocation of the Theological Intellectual

Abstract This article explores three areas of David Daniels’s scholarship that engage the genealogical method: the Black roots of early US Pentecostalism, the Ethiopian influences of the Protestant Reformation, and the impact of Kongolese Christianity on the emergence and development of Black Christianity in the Americas. These three scholarly areas within Daniels’s work continue to be generative sites for research and writing for theologians and religious scholars today and show why the genealogical vocation remains indispensable.