Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Black Hermeneutics

It is unthinkable that the oppressors could identify with oppressed existence and thus say something relevant about God's liberation of the oppressed. In order to be Christian theology, white theology must cease being white theology and become black theology by denying whiteness as an acceptable form of human existence and affirming blackness as God's intention for humanity.

James H. Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation, Twentieth Anniversary Edition (Orbis: 2006), 9.

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