For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church - 40th Anniversary Edition

Originally published in 1984, James Cone’s For My People remains an important landmark in the development of Black Theology. While tracing the origins of the movement, its relation to the Black Church, its engagement with other liberation theologies from the Global South, and the emergence of Womanist theology, he also offered telling reflections on the path ahead.

Assessing this work, the great scholar C. Eric Lincoln observed: “For My People spares neither kith nor kin, but addresses its...