Advanced Search Links. Product Close-up. Add To Cart. The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Jesus and the Disinherited. A Black Political Theology. God of the Oppressed remains a landmark in the development of Black Theology - the first effort to present a systematic theology drawing fully on the resources of African-American religion and culture.
Responding to the criticism that his previous books drew too heavily on Euro-American definitions of theology, James Cone went back to his experience of the black church in Bearden, Arkansas, the tradition of the Spirituals and black folklore, and the black history of struggle and survival, to construct a new approach to the gospel.
Related Products. Roberts 20 Black liberation thought also begins with negating White readings of the biblical narrative that seem to promote the unbridled capitalism responsible for the dehumanization and subsequent racializing of African American bodies. With these two articulations of the Hegelian dialectic in mind—both of 62 Ibid. By looking at the reality of economics in American history, Cone is able to justify his judgment against White capitalism as the power structure that is responsible for the persecution of African Americans.
It is important to note that this process of deconstruction is not done for the sake of bringing down the state, but promoting the possibility of a new liberated existence.
Both Marx and Cone seem to agree that true liberation is not inclusion into the existing society; if inclusion is the aim 69 West, Black Theology and Marxist Thought, Roberts 22 for the oppressed, authentic liberation can never occur. Roberts 23 the specifics of the new society which the African American community is working towards through revolutionary praxis.
Furthermore, post-structuralist discourse argues that liberation theologies may be guilty of universalizing the idea of a transformed world—even though it is quite vague—in such a way that it actually oppresses other marginal groups.
A prime example of this is the founding of Womanist theology as a response to the lack of attention by Black liberation theologians to the unique sufferings of African American women. With this in mind, it is helpful to look at where Cone and Marx may, in fact, be in agreement with one another. Black Liberationist and Marxist Hopes: A Synthesis Though they have radically different frameworks for describing the outcome of revolutionary praxis, both Marx and Cone invest in some sort of concept of hope for the world situation, especially as it relates to the marginalized of culture.
Roberts 24 human ideals onto a non-existent being. Zhixiong and Rowland note that Marxism offers the same hope to the poor common to the early forms of Christianity where attention was given to the marginalized.
In a real way, the praxis of the early Christian church was a revolution against the norms of an imperial society responsible for pushing many people to the margins of existence. Transformation through revolution is never a passive act in which those who are oppressed can simply depend on something outside of themselves to change society; this is common to both Marx and Cone.
Roberts 25 the working class who does away with private property and inaugurates a society where production is no longer a dehumanizing process; the power involved is simply derived from the human frustration over oppression.
The synthesis between these two drastically different, but yet related, systems of change is found in the Hegelian dialectic which Marx and Cone use to move oppressed people towards definite change within history. Marxist social theory functions as a negation of the oppressive capitalist social structures within Western society, providing an awareness of the reality of the predicament of the African American community.
Black liberation thought upholds the values of the Black community, particularly through the role of the religious among the oppressed.
Roberts 26 a decisive move towards freedom by the African American community as they are empowered by the Christian God who enters into history through the person of Jesus Christ to join in the freedom fight. As a displaced people within a culture often experiencing alienation from its European roots, the slave ancestors of African Americans adopted and rearticulated Christianity in way that crated a subversive space where freedom reigned within a community of bondage.
Centuries later, in the midst of the Civil Rights era, Black Power—a militant African American philosophical, political, and social movement— challenged Black religion to find ways of expressing power in a manifest way within history, rather than waiting for freedom in eternity.
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Responding to the criticism that his previous books drew too heavily on Euro-American definitions of theology, James Cone went back to his experience of the black church in Bearden, Arkansas, the tradition of the Spirituals and black folklore, and the black history of struggle and survival, to construct a new approach to the gospel.
But a wider theme of the book is the role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God, as well as the mode of the answers provided.
Revised, including a new introduction by Cone, God of the Oppressed remains invaluable for scholars, students, clergy, and everyone concerned with vital, contemporary God-Talk. Read more Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private.
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