God of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition

God of the Oppressed, first published in 1975, remains a landmark in the development of Black Theology—the first effort to present a systematic theology drawing fully on the resources of African—American religion and culture. Responding to the criticism that his previous books drew too heavily on Euro—American definitions of theology, James Cone went back to his experience of the Black church in Bearden, Arkansas, the tradition of the Spirituals and Black folklore, and the Black history of ...