James H. Cone - an influential theologian of the mid to late 20th century

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,120
edited December 2024 in English Forum

Yesterday, I pushed Robert McAfee Brown. Today, I'm pushing another civil rights era theologian - this time the man behind much Black liberation theology. I would have thought Logos would have added his work when they created the Kerusso package. Rosie had requested three of his works.  I have simply added additional books I think everyone should know.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you for bringing my suggestions to the fore again, and adding more.

    I've voted for all of yours.

    I took an online class on Black Theology taught by Dr. Adam Clark (a theology professor at Xavier University, a HBCU) with Dr. Tripp Fuller (of the Homebrewed Christianity podcast), in Sept 2020. Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree, For My People, and Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody, were on the reading list for that. I don't know why I didn't add suggestions for the latter two at the time. I guess because I was able to get them in Kindle format, but the other wasn't and still isn't available as a Kindle book.

    James Cone Was Right: Black Theology & The Moment

  • Christian Alexander
    Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1307277#Comment_1307277

    I too took a course like this class you are referencing Rosie. My professors were Shannon Craigo-Snell and Almeda M. Wright. We used these books. Some are in Logos and some are not. 

    Black religion and black radicalism : an interpretation of the religious history of Afro-American people / Gayraud S. Wilmore.

    Canaan Land : a religious history of African Americans / Albert J. Raboteau.

    The Christian imagination : theology and the origins of race / Willie James Jennings.

    The color of Christ : the Son of God & the saga of race in America / Edward J. Blum, Paul Harvey.

    African Catholicism—An Essay in Discovery / Adrian Hastings

     Black Theology and Black Power / James Cone

    Down by the Riverside: Readings in African-American Religion / Larry G. Murphy

    Jesus and the disinherited / Howard Thurman.

    A Semiotic Approach to the Theology of Inculturation / Cyril Orji; Dennis M. Doyle

    I love Cone's works as they are very logical and analytical. Thanks for bringing them up MJ.

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