A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Cone argues that Christian speech about God is inseparable from God’s liberating identification with oppressed people.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It refuses supposedly universal theology that leaves its social location unnamed. The book helps travelers see why speech about God, freedom, and revelation is inseparable from whose suffering and agency a theology can recognize.
Good starting place if…
You want to understand why Christian claims about God look different when racial oppression and the struggle for liberation are treated as central theological realities.
Know before you begin…
Cone writes prophetically from the history of Black suffering and resistance in the United States. His sharp binaries belong to that struggle and should be read alongside later womanist, Black feminist, and other internal critiques that widen the questions of gender, sexuality, and power.