Black Theology and Black Power: 50th Anniversary Edition

Cone, James, H.

Jan 2018 · Orbis Books

About this ebook

What is black power? -- Black power and existential absurdity -- Is black power a form of black racism? -- Why integration is not the answer? -- Is there an appropriate response to white racism? -- How does black power relate to white guilt? -- Black power and the white liberal -- Black power: hope or despair? -- What is the gospel of Jesus? -- Christ, black power, and freedom -- The righteousness of god and black power -- Christian love and black power -- The holy spirit and black power -- What is the church? -- The white church and black power -- Black power and American theology -- The black church before the Civil War -- The post-Civil War black church -- On black suffering -- On religious authority -- On eschatology -- On the creation of new values -- Revolution -- Violence -- Reconciliation.

About the author

James Hal Cone was born in Fordyce, Arkansas on August 5, 1938. He received a bachelor of divinity degree from Garrett Theological Seminary and a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He became a central figure in the development of black liberation theology in the 1960s and 1970s. He spoke about racial inequalities that persisted in the form of economic injustice, mass incarceration, and police shootings. He joined the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in 1969 and was appointed to the distinguished Charles A. Biggs chair of systematic theology in 1977. He wrote several books including Black Theology and Black Power, A Black Theology of Liberation, Crosscurrents, and The Cross and the Lynching Tree, which received the Grawemeyer Award in Religion in 2018. He died on April 28, 2018 at the age of 79. Professor, writer, and civil rights activist Cornel West was born on June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and raised in Sacramento. He graduated from Harvard University in 1973 with an M.A. and later taught African-American studies there. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Haverford College, and Princeton University, the latter as professor of religion and director of African-American studies. West earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1980. He has written more than twenty books, including Race Matters and Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America.