Description: "50th anniversary of Cone's landmark work of Black theology, relating the gospel message to the experience of the Black community, with a new introduciton"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Excellent . . . Dr. Cone has opened the door to a universal theology."- The Christian Century
"God of the Oppressed, a theological masterpiece by James H. Cone, the most important theologian of the twentieth century and the celebrated father of Black liberation theology, continues to inspire and guide us. Cone's Black liberation theology, born out of the civil rights and Black Power movements, offers a timeless perspective on the enduring struggle of suffering in the Black experience and the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ. Fifty years later, Cone reminds us that racism is America's original sin, white Euro-American theology must reckon with its silence, and the Christian church must repent for its complicity." --Melanie Jones Quarles, PhD, Inaugural Director of The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary "With the publication of God of the Oppressed, James Cone did more than inaugurate Black theology as an academic discipline. He reoriented the heart of Christian theology toward the cries of the crucified and the courage of the Black struggle for freedom. To declare Christ is Black, Cone insisted, is to affirm that no gospel in America can be true unless it bears witness to the God who liberates the oppressed from within their history, their culture, and their suffering."--Adam Clark, PhD, director, Take It On: Initiative for Civic Engagement