Linda Hoover McClain: Excellent reading
United States on Nov 06, 2022
Kindle Customer: This book should be read by everyone doing ministry in an AAC whether you agree with him are not you have to sufficiently answer the questions he answered better
United States on Jan 30, 2021
Tracy Marlow: difficult read for a white person.
challenged and helped me see things more clearly
United Kingdom on Sep 25, 2020
Dylan: Dr come, explains how the church and African American experience is not far a part. Both communities have suffer and were repress. The Christian has fail in reaching out to whole church at times and this book will explain this.
United States on Sep 19, 2020
LaVoisier Bering: This book is one I picked up and essentially couldn't put it down till I was finished. It is challenging, in a good way. It makes you think about the way you view your faith. The language my be challenging or scary to some but I find it very authentic to what was going on when it was written and how many may feel today. I would recinebd every American. Especially American theologians read this.
United States on Jun 14, 2017
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United Kingdom on Dec 08, 2014
J Whitgift: James H Cone's 'A Black Theology of Liberation' is his attempt at creating a systematic form of theology, developing the ideas he first put forth in 'Black Theology and Black Power'. Insofar as he attempts to do this, he provides a reasonably coherent theological method, one that is certainly more developed (and more coherent, if no less coherent) than his proceeding tome. Where Cone fails, however, is his continued self-righteousness, in attacking "white theology" and his stigmatisation of white people and "white theology" as satanic, basing this analysis on deeply flawed (and deeply racist) logic:
'American white theology is a theology of the Antichrist insofar as it arises out of an identification with the white community, thereby placing God's approval on white oppression of black existence.'
[Cone, 'A Black Theology of Liberation' (1986) p.6]
The first problem is the assumption of the existence of "white theology" as though such a theological method has ever actually existed: history shows that there have been many streams of theological thinking, some orthodox some heterodox. (Cone's continuous quoting from both Tillich and Barth proves such a point. It also...
United Kingdom on Oct 02, 2013
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ISBN-10 | 1626983852 | 1626980055 | |
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Publisher | Orbis Books; Anniversary edition | Orbis; Reprint edition | |
Paperback | 200 pages | 224 pages | |
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Juanita J Pratt: wonderful and educational read. Enjoyed very much.
United States on Sep 27, 2023