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Offers a radical reappraisal of Christianity from the perspective of an oppressed Black North American community.
When A Black Theology of Liberation was first published in 1970, it was revolutionary because it claimed that white theology had no relevance as Christ's message because it was "not related to the liberation of the poor." It also asserted that "racism. . . . is found not only in American society and its churches but particularly in the discipline in theology, affecting its nature and purpose." Gone was among the leaders in the establishment of a black theology movement that reinterpreted Christianity as a tool for the liberation of the black community.
His message was the Christian response to the Black Power movement that emerged in the late 1970s. Uke Martin Luther King in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Cone rejected any form of Christianity that defended the oppressive status quo, and he argued persuasively that the God of the Bible is first of all a God of the poor and of those seeking liberation from oppression. Cone felt that what was needed was a "fresh start" in theology that would arise out of the black struggle for justice and be in no way dependent upon the approval of white academics or religious leaders. "I knew that racism was a heresy, and I did not need to have white theologians tell me so. Indeed, the exploitation of persons of color was the central theological problem of our time. 'The problem of the twentieth century,' wrote W. E. B. Du Bois in 1906, 'is the problem of the color line.'Just as whites had not listened to Du Bois, I did not expect white theologians to take black theology seriously."
A Black Theology of Liberation laid the groundwork and sets the standard for that "fresh start." Cone's revolutionary work has been immensely influential among black ministers throughout the United States and the liberation theology movement around the world.
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