Black Theology and Ideology: Deideological Dimensions in the Theology of James H. Cone Book

	Preface
	Introduction
1	The Black Experience and the Emergence of Ideological Suspicion	1
	The Black Experience as an Existential Encounter with White Supremacy	1
	The Black Experience as an Eschatological Decision for Black Liberation	9
	The Black Experience as the Contemporary Revelation of God	17
2	The Western Intellectual Tradition and Ideological Suspicion	25
	Western Intellectual Discourse and White Supremacy	26
	The Western Theological Tradition and Sociopolitical Oppression	34
	Why a Black Theology?	38
	Black Theology as Christian Theology	42
3	Hermeneutical Methodology and the Emergence of Exegetical Suspicion	47
	Hermeneutical Methodology, White Supremacy, and Slavery	48
	Hermeneutical Methodology, White Supremacy, and Segregation	55
	Black Theology and Hermeneutical Methodology	58
	Black Theology, Hermeneutical Methodology, and the Old Testament	61
	Black Theology, Hermeneutical Methodology, and the New Testament	63
4	A New Hermeneutic	68
	God	69
	Humanity	72
	Jesus Christ	77
	Eschatology	82
	Revolution and Violence	86
5	The Case for Indigenous Deideologization	92
	Cone's Theology of Liberation	93
	Segundo's Liberation of Theology	99
	The Case for Indigenous Deideologization	105
	Works Cited	121
	Index of Subjects	125