James H. Cone | |
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Born | James Hal Cone August 5, 1938 |
Died | April 28, 2018 New York City, New York, U.S. | (aged 79)
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Awards | Grawemeyer Award (2018) |
Ecclesiastical career | |
Religion | Christianity (Methodist) |
Church | African Methodist Episcopal Church |
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Academic career | |
Discipline | Theology |
Sub-discipline | Systematic theology |
School or tradition | Black liberation theology |
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Notable works | A Black Theology of Liberation (1970) |
Notable ideas | Black liberation theology |
Thesis | The Doctrine of Man in the Theology of Karl Barth[1] (1965) |
Doctoral students | Jacquelyn Grant[2] |
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James Hal Cone (August 5, 1938 – April 28, 2018) was an American Methodist minister and theologian. He is 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.[17] His message was that Black Power, defined as black people asserting the humanity that white supremacy denied, was the gospel in America. Jesus came to liberate the oppressed, advocating the same thing as Black Power. He argued that white American churches preached a gospel based on white supremacy, antithetical to the gospel of Jesus.
Cone's work was influential from the time of the book's publication and his work remains so today. His work has been both used and critiqued inside and outside the African-American theological community. He was the Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Columbia University-affiliated Union Theological Seminary until his death.[18]
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