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Book SynopsisWhen Cone wrote Black Theology and Black Power, he liberated the Gospel of Christ from its institutionalized forms. This book continues Cone's theme of power in the public realm and examines the economic, political, cultural, gender, and theological implications of black faith and black theology.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Black Faith and Public Talk, Dwight N. Hopkins
- Part I: Black Faith and Religious Themes
- 1. Black Theology and Human Identity, Cornel West
- 2. The Black Church and Religious Freedom, Stephen L. Carter
- 3. African American Thought: The Discovery of Fragments, David Tracy
- Part II: Black Faith and Prophetic Faith Communities
- 4. Black Theology on Theological Education, Dwight N. Hopkins
- 5. Racism and the Church: An Inquiry into the Contradictions between Experience, Doctrine, and Theological Theory, Jamie. T Phelps
- 6. Black Leadership, Faith, and the Struggle for Freedom, Manning Marble
- 7. Black Theology and the Parish Ministry, J. Alfred Smith, Sr.
- 8. An Underground Theology, Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
- Part III: Black Faith and Women
- 9. Searching for Paradise in a World of Theme Parks, Emilie M. Townes
- 10. Servanthood Revisited: Womanist Explorations of Servanthood Theology, Jacquelyn Grant
- 11. Disrupted/Disruptive Movements: Black Theology and Black Power 1969/1999, Renée Leslie Hill
- 12. Reimagining Public Discourse, Rebecca S. Chopp
- Part IV: Black Faith and the Third World
- 13. Liberation Theology and African Women's Theologies, Rosemary Radford Ruether
- 14. Emancipatory Christianity, Linda E. Thomas
- 15. Black Latin American Theology: A New Way to Sense, to Feel, and to Speak of God, Silvia Regina de Lima Silva
- Part V: Black Faith, James H. Cone, and the Future of Black Theology
- 16. Race and Civil Society: A Democratic Conversation, Jean Bethke Elshtain and Christopher Beem
- 17. Comparing the Public Theologies of James H. Cone and Martin Luther King, Jr., Peter J. Paris
- 18. Black Theology at the Turn of the Century: Some Unmet Needs and Challenges, Gayraud S. Wilmore
- 19. Looking Back, Going Forward: Black Theology as Public Talk, James H. Cone
