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1. sojo.net › articles › why-james-cone-was-mostWhy James Cone Was the Most Important Theologian of His Time

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   May 2, 2018 · If racism was and is America’s original sin, and repentance is the only sufficient response to sin, James Cone was the most important theologian of his generation. To white Americans, he said ...

2. shenviapologetics.com › a-short-review-of-conesA Short Review of Cone’s God of the Oppressed - Apologetics

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   While Cone does indeed recognize that God sides with the ‘oppressed,’ he strongly rejects any abstract, universalizing theology independent of particulars. In the context of the United States, the ‘oppressed’ are people of color in general and the black community in particular. It is the black community in America that God elects ...

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4. www.thegospelcoalition.org › article › james-coneJames Cone: Black Theology, Liberation, and Reconciliation

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   May 16, 2012 · Beyond this emphasis on the “black experience,” Cone suggested that a significant message of biblical theology is liberation from oppression. He wrote, “The God of the biblical faith and black religion is best known as the Liberator of the oppressed from bondage. . . . To resist evil is to participate in God’s redemption of the world.”

5. www.christiancentury.org › blog-post › cover-coverJames Cone's theology is easy to like and hard to live

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   May 2, 2018 · All theology starts with the particularity of the theologian’s experience, believed James Cone, who died Saturday at the age of 79. “I was born in Fordyce, Arkansas,” begins his groundbreaking work of black theology, God of the Oppressed. “Two important realities shaped my consciousness: the black Church experience and the ...

6. www.gradesaver.com › god-of-the-oppressed › studyGod of the Oppressed Summary - GradeSaver

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   Written by Elizabeth Oscar. God of the Oppressed by James H. Cone is a book about theology and black liberation. In the introduction part, Cone asserts that white people did everything possible to ensure that black people perceive them as their masters. White people wanted to use theology and Christian teachings to drive their point home.

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7. www.christianitytoday.com › 2018 › 02Why the Enslaved Adopted the Religion of Their Masters—and ...

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   Feb 12, 2018 · The simple fact that the enslaved were able to “hold on” to Jesus, as it were, is in our day a story of the power of the Resurrection. Emerson Powery and Rodney Sadler Jr. shared in their book ...

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   What is 'God of the Oppressed' based on?

   • Cone's 1975 book God of the Oppressed is based on his understanding of the relationship between Christianity and the black freedom struggle, following his earlier works 'Black Power and Black Liberation' (1969) and 'A Black Theology of Liberation' (1970).

   A Short Review of Cone’s God of the Oppressed – Neil

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   Does God side with the 'oppressed'?

   • According to Cone, God sides with the 'oppressed,' specifically people of color in the United States and the black community in particular. While Cone recognizes this, he strongly rejects any abstract, universalizing theology that is not rooted in these particulars.

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   Who are the 'oppressed'?

   • In the context of the United States, Cone refers to people of color in general and the black community in particular as the 'oppressed'. It is the black community in America that God elects unconditionally as his people, and it is black people with whom God identifies.

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   Is God of the oppressed a black theology of liberation?

   • Although the tone of 'God of the Oppressed' by Cone is milder than that of 'A Black Theology of Liberation', there is little difference in content. At no point does he contradict or repudiate anything he said in his previous work.

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   Does God of the oppressed account for other forms of oppression?

   • In an article Cone wrote for the Christian Century six years after the publication of God of the Oppressed, he acknowledged that his initial theological emphasis on blackness failed to account for other forms of oppression. “Racism, sexism, classism, and imperialism are interrelated and thus cannot be separated,” he wrote.

   James Cone's theology is easy to like and hard to live

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   Who is Jesus in God of the oppressed?

   • In God of the Oppressed, Cone works through this tension by elaborating three statements: Jesus is who he was, Jesus is who he is, and Jesus is who he will be. Jesus was a Jewish man whose ministry was aimed at liberation of oppressed people 2000 years ago—and we encounter that same man today as the risen Lord who is present to us in our struggles.

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9. medium.com › national-center-for-institutionalThe God of the Oppressed and the Use of the Bible as a ...

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   Aug 11, 2018 · The God of the mother and child, the “captive,” is speaking in a different voice from that representing a policy that characterizes the oppressed as the embodiment of undocumented immigrants ...