With the publication of his two early works, Black Theology & Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), James Cone emerged as one of the most creative and provocative theological voices in North America. These books, which offered a searing indictment of white theology and society, introduced a radical reappraisal of the Christian message for our time. Combining the visions of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., Cone radically reappraised Christianity from the perspective of the oppressed black community in North America. Forty years later, his work retains its original power, enhanced now by reflections on the evolution of his own thinking and of black theology and on the needs of the present moment.
"The introduction to this edition by Cornel West was originally published in Dwight N. Hopkins, ed.
birth to the black church and was the soil for the roots of black theology) allowed enslaved African Americans to keep alive memories of African indigenous religions. To these, they added their own commonsense wisdom from everyday ...
After the Jewish Holocaust , Christian theologians were forced to ask whether antiJudaism was so deeply woven into the core of ... which , according to British historian Basil Davidson , " cost Africa at least fifty million souls " ??
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.
"The classic text in black theology, with a new foreword by Peter J. Paris and a new afterword by Kelly Brown Douglas"--
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 ...
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This groundbreaking work, now a classic in the field, is recognized as one of the first texts to move conversations within black theology beyond what black theologians were against toward what the movement sought to affirm.
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, ...
Liberation and Reconciliation: A Black Theology