A revolutionary new book traces the origins and history of black theology from slavery through Malcolm X and the present. Original. (view table of contents)

Presents a collection of essays covering the history of Black theology, its relationship to the Third World and violence, and the philosophies of Martin Luther King, jr and Malcolm X (view table of contents)

Book by Cone, James H. (view table of contents)

In his reflections on God, Jesus, suffering, and liberation, James H. Cone relates the gospel message to the experience of the black community. 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. (view table of contents)

A Negro theologian examines the basic concepts of the Black Power movement, while probing its relationship to Christianity, the Church and modern religious thought

Product Description: First published in 1979, this is the classic sourcebook for the emergence of Black Thelogy in the United States. Born out of the Civil Rights Movement and the emerging demand for Black Power, Black Theology has tried for 25 years to relate the gospel to the African-American experience of oppression and struggle for liberation...read more

Product Description: This historic book: Black Theology by James H. Cone and Gayraud S. Wilmore is a two volume documentary set. The Black Theology - A Documentary History became the classic sourcebook for the emergence of Black rheology in the United States...read more

Cone explores two classic aspects of African-American culture--the spirituals and the blues. He tells the captivating story of how slaves and the children of slaves used this music to affirm their essential humanity in the face of oppression. The blues are shown to be a "this-worldly" expression of cultural and political rebellion. The spirituals tell about the "attempt to carve out a significant existence in a very trying situation." (view table of contents)

Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s

Product Description: First published in 1970, this book presents a searing indictment of white theology and society, while offering a radical reappraisal of Christianity from the perspective of an oppressed black North American community. Now 20 years later, Cone reviews the evolution of his own thinking, plus black theology in dialogue with feminist theory and third world theologies of liberation...read more

Firmly rooted in the black church tradition, James H. Cone relates the formative features of his faith journey, from his childhood experience in Bearden, Arkansas, and his father's steadfast resistance to racism, through racial discrimination in graduate school, to his controversial articulation of a faith that seeks to break the shackles of racial oppression.

Looks at the history of Black theology, discusses its relationship to white and liberation theology, and identifies new directions for Black churches to take in the eighties