Charles Vincent Gilmer
- Part-Time Faculty
Dr. Gilmer served as a campus missionary with Cru from 1981-2002, and was the Founding President and Chairman of the Board of The Impact Movement, Inc. from July 2002 until January 2015, a ministry focused on producing leaders of African descent. Impact sent over 1000 short-term workers to Africa, and over 500 to New Orleans to provide Hurricane Katrina Relief, the largest contingent of African Americans to do so. The Impact National Conference was attended by over 12,000 during his tenure. Dr. Gilmer is currently the Theologian in Residence at Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church in the Larimer neighborhood in Pittsburgh and an Adjunct Professor at Duquesne University.
Education & Training
- Education • University of Pennsylvania, BAS • Princeton Theological Seminary, MDiv • Duquesne University, PhD in New Testament Theology • Carver College in Atlanta, GA. Doctor of Divinity
Representative Publications
His academic publications and presentations include:
“Lift Every Voice-The Influence of the African American Church: An Illustration of the Power of a Culturally Incarnated Witness” Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, Volume 36 (2024).
“Toward a Cultural Incarnational Ecclesiology” in the Journal of African Christian Thought, Volume 25.2 January 2023.
Presented “How an African American Hermeneutic Fueled the Response of the Association of Black Seminarians’ Response to Princeton Theological Seminary’s Slavery Audit,” to the African American Hermeneutics Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, November 2022.
"An African American Christology Based on an Archetypal Folk Chanted Sermon Close" in Black Theology. (2022) DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2022.21027322022.
“An Alternate Translation of Μέλη Ἐκ Μέρους in 1 Corinthians 12:27.” Conversations with the Biblical World 40 (2020): 44–68.
