The Rev. Dr. James H. Cone, a central figure in the development of black liberation theology in the 1960s and ‘70s who argued for racial justice and an interpretation of the Christian Gospel that ...

In 1975’s God of the Oppressed, theologian James H. Cone described how Christian responses to the 1967 Detroit riot revealed not only an insensitivity to black suffering but, as he argued, a larger ...

With James Cone’s death, comes the death of Black theology. This statement is hyperbolic in that a variety of theologians—some trained by Cone and others not—will continue to write theological texts ...

Section 1. Black theology and Black power. Christianity and Black power, 1968 ; Black spirituals: a theological interpretation, 1972 ; Black theology on revolution, violence, and reconciliation, 1975 ...