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Liberating Black Theology: The Bible and the Black Experience in America is unavailable, but you can change that!

When the beliefs of Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, assumed the spotlight during the 2008 presidential campaign, the influence of black liberation theology became hotly debated not just within theological circles but across cultural lines. How many of today's African-American congregations-and how many Americans in general-have been shaped by its view of blacks as perpetual...

around his belief that “white socio-political interests” drive the theological exposition of Caucasian theologians. “White” Christian theology thus systematically excludes blacks because their social existence has never been of value to white theologians. Cone uses a Marxist class analysis to conclude that because most professional theologians are descendants of the advantaged class and thus often represent the consciousness of the class, “it is difficult not to conclude that their theologies are