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James H. Cone

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Karl Barth, Richard Wright

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James Hal Cone is an advocate of Black liberation theology, a theology grounded in the experience of African Americans, and related to other Christian liberation theologies. In 1969, his book Black Theology and Black Power provided a new way to articulate the distinctiveness of theology in the black Church. James Cone’s work was influential and political from the time of his first publication, and he remains so today. His work has been both utilized and critiqued inside and outside of the African American theological community.

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Average rating: 3.95 · 654 ratings · 65 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare? 4.23 avg rating — 170 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Black Theology of Liberation by James H. Cone, Rosemary Radford Ruether (Contributor), K.C. Abraham (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	God of the Oppressed 3.84 avg rating — 136 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Black Theology & Black Power 3.85 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1969 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Cross And The Lynching Tree 4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Spirituals and the Blues 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation 1968-98 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	My Soul Looks Back 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	My rating:
	For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1984	My rating:
	Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation and Black Theology 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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“It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation.”
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“The Christian community, therefore, is that community that freely becomes oppressed, because they know that Jesus himself has defined humanity's liberation in the context of what happens to the little ones. Christians join the cause of the oppressed in the fight for justice not because of some philosophical principle of "the Good" or because of a religious feeling of sympathy for people in prison. Sympathy does not change the structures of injustice. The authentic identity of Christians with the poor is found in the claim which the Jesus-encounter lays upon their own life-style, a claim that connects the word "Christian" with the liberation of the poor. Christians fight not for humanity in general but for themselves and out of their love for concrete human beings.”
― James H. Cone, God of the Oppressed

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“Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.”
― James H. Cone

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