James H. Cone Quotes

James Hal Cone was an American theologian, best known for his advocacy of black theology and black liberation theology. His 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power provided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of theology in the black church. Cone's work was influential from the time of the book's publication, and his work remains influential today. His work has been both utilized and critiqued inside and outside the African-American theological community. He was the Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York until his death.

✵ 5. August 1938 – 28. April 2018
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Famous James H. Cone Quotes

“A God minus wrath seems to be a God who is basically not against anything.”

Source: A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), p. 73

“The revolution which Black Theology advocates … [means] confronting white racists and saying: 'If it's a fight you want, I am prepared to oblige you.”

This is what the black revolution means.
Source: Black Theology and Black Power (1969), p. 136

James H. Cone Quotes about God

“To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!”

Source: Black Theology and Black Power (1969), pp. 139-140

“Any talk about God that fails to make God's liberation of the oppressed its starting point is not Christian.”

Source: Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986), p. 4

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