In 1978, the first meeting of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, organized by Thaddeus Posey,
O.F.M. and sponsored by the
National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, was held in
Baltimore, Maryland. It worked on defining
black theology and clarifying its relationship with the
black consciousness movement and related understandings of violence and separatism. Including theologians such as
Thea Bowman,
M. Shawn Copeland,
Jamie T. Phelps, and
Cyprian Davis, its proceedings were published as
Theology: A Portrait in Black. The second meeting of the Symposium was held in 1979 on the theme of "Nguba Saba". It would not hold another meeting until 1991, when convened by Sr
Jamie T. Phelps,
O.P., but has held meetings annually ever since. == Conveners ==