God of the Oppressed

In his reflections on God, Jesus, suffering, and liberation, James H. Cone relates the gospel message to the experience of the black community. But a wider theme of the book is the role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God as well as the mode of the answers provided.

Preface to the 1997 Edition

ix

(10)

Preface to the 1975 Edition

xix

Chapter 1 Introduction

1

(14)

Chapter 2 Speaking the Truth

15

(21)

The Black Experience as a Source of Theology

16

(12)

Black Experience, Scripture, and Jesus Christ

28

(8)

Chapter 3 The Social Context of Theology

36

(21)

Feuerbach, Marx, and the Sociology of Knowledge

36

(6)

White American Theology

42

(7)

Black Religious Thought

49

(8)

Chapter 4 Biblical Revelation and Social Existence

57

(20)

The Social Context of Divine Revelation in the Old Testament

57

(9)

The Social Context of Divine Revelation in the New Testament

66

(8)

Christian Theology and the Biblical Story

74

(3)

Chapter 5 Black Theology and Ideology

77

(22)

H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture

78

(5)

Ideology, Social Determination, and Biblical Revelation

83

(4)

Black Theology and Ideology

87

(6)

Ideology and the Black Story

93

(6)

Chapter 6 Who Is Jesus Christ for Us Today?

99

(28)

Social Context, Scripture, and Tradition

99

(7)

Jesus Is Who He Was

106

(4)

Jesus Is Who He Is

110

(6)

Jesus Is Who He Will Be

116

(6)

Jesus Is Black

122

(5)

Chapter 7 The Meaning of Liberation

127

(23)

Jesus Christ as the Ground of Human Liberation

127

(3)

Liberation as Freedom to Be in Relation to God

130

(4)

Liberation as Freedom in Relation to Self and the Community of the Oppressed

134

(5)

Liberation as the Project of Freedom in History

139

(6)

Liberation as the Project of Freedom in Hope

145

(5)

Chapter 8 Divine Liberation and Black Suffering

150

(29)

Suffering in the Bible

151

(12)

Suffering in the Western Theological Tradition

163

(6)

Suffering in the Black Religious Tradition

169

(10)

Chapter 9 Liberation and the Christian Ethic

179

(28)

The Interdependence of Theology and Ethics

180

(9)

Toward a Black Ethic of Liberation

189

(10)

Ethics, Violence, and Jesus Christ

199

(8)

Chapter 10 Liberation and Reconciliation

207

(20)

The Objective Reality of Reconciliation

209

(4)

The Subjective Reality of Reconciliation

213

(2)

Reconciliation: Black and White

215

(12)

Notes

227

(26)

Index

253

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