Books written by James H. Cone

  • Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream Or a Nightmare
    Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream Or a Nightmare

    Malcolm X, "Separation or Integration," speech given 7 March 1962, in James L. Golden and Richard D. Rieke, eds., The Rhetoric of Black Americans (Columbus, Ohio: Charles Merrill, 1971), p. 431. 48. Militant, 10 June 1964, p. 3. 49.

  • For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church
    For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church

    See James S. Tinney's excellentarticle,"TheMoral Majority: Operating Underthe Hoodof ReligiousRight," Dollars and Sense, specialissue,vol. 7,no. 2, June/July 1981,pp. 6873. 7. It is reallyamazingthat somany liberal white theologians and ...

  • The Cross and the Lynching Tree
    The Cross and the Lynching Tree

    Examines the symbols of the cross and the lynching tree in African Americans daily life, spiritual life and history.

  • For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church
    For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church

    ... slavery of, in Egypt, 60, 63-65, 229 Jackson, Jesse, 112, 194, 204 Jackson, Joseph 1-1., 115 Jackson, Joseph S., ... resurrection of, 33, 66-67, 140, 174, 188, 225, 231; and Western Kim Yong Bok, 253 King, Edwin, 247 King, Helen, ...

  • Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare
    Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare

    At the age of six, young Martin had his first significant experience with the "color bar," and he never forgot it. The father of a white friendtoldhimthat theycouldno longer play together because he was "colored.

  • The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation
    The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation

    He tells the captivating story of how slaves and the children of slaves used this music to affirm their essential humanity in the face of oppression. The blues are shown to be a "this-worldly" expression of cultural and political rebellion.

  • My Soul Looks Back
    My Soul Looks Back

    'My Soul Looks Back' chronicles the author's grappling with these questions, as well as his formulation of an answer--an answer that would lead to the development of a black theology of liberation.

  • The Diary of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) 1964
    The Diary of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) 1964

    The Diary of Malcolm X is a transcended document.

  • Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream Or a Nightmare?
    Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream Or a Nightmare?

    While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as essentially a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled, Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare.

  • God of the Oppressed
    God of the Oppressed

    Perhaps the earliest and the best study of old-time black preaching is William H. Pipes, Say Amen, Brother! (Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, 1970; originally published in 1951). See also James W. Johnson's excellent book, ...

  • The Cross and the Lynching Tree
    The Cross and the Lynching Tree

    Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922), p. 51. 32. Lorraine Hansberry, “Lynchsong,” Masses and Mainstream 4, no. 7 (July 1951): pp. 19-20. Angela Y. Davis compared Hansberry's poem ...

  • A Black Theology of Liberation
    A Black Theology of Liberation

    I am grateful to C. Eric Lincoln, my colleague at Union, for the invitation to write this work for the C. Eric Lincoln Series in Black Religion. His confidence and encouragement have been invaluable to me.

  • Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
    Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian

    The blood of black people is crying out to God and to white people from the ground in the United States of America. ... South Carolina, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York; the blood of nearly five thousand lynched blacks; ...

  • Black Theology and Black Power
    Black Theology and Black Power

    Relating the militant struggle for liberation with the gospel message of salvation, James Cone laid the foundation for an original interpretation of Christianity that retains its urgency and challenge today.

  • A Black Theology of Liberation
    A Black Theology of Liberation

    These books, which offered a searing indictment of white theology and society, introduced a radical reappraisal of the Christian message for our time.

  • A Black Theology of Liberation: 50th Anniversary Edition
    A Black Theology of Liberation: 50th Anniversary Edition

    "The classic text in black theology, with a new foreword by Peter J. Paris and a new afterword by Kelly Brown Douglas"--

  • God of the Oppressed
    God of the Oppressed

    But a wider theme of the book is the role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God as well as the mode of the answers provided.

  • Malcolm X et Martin Luther King: Même cause, même combat
    Malcolm X et Martin Luther King: Même cause, même combat

    Quêtes de santé Les Actes des apôtres La première histoire d'Israël Entretien avec une chamane sibérienne Le protestantisme et ses pasteurs L'évangile selon saint ... Le football , ses dieux et ses démons Là où je vais Religions antiques.

  • The Cross and the Lynching Tree
    The Cross and the Lynching Tree

    In this work, Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of African American folk.

  • My Soul Looks Back
    My Soul Looks Back

    'My Soul Looks Back' chronicles the author's grappling with these questions, as well as his formulation of an answer--an answer that would lead to the development of a black theology of liberation.