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Prophetic Rage: A Postcolonial Theology of Liberation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book Johnny Bernard Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous anger, is a necessary response to our present culture of imperialism and nihilism. The most powerful way to resist meaninglessness, he says, is refusing to accept the realities of structural injustice, such as poverty, escalating militarism, genocide, and housing discrimination. Hill’s Prophetic Rage is interdisciplinary,...

the theological tensions between Cone and Roberts, as well as their later works, however, provides a helpful entry point into the relationship between black theology and postmodernity, and postcolonialism. Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power represents his most radical assault on white supremacist hegemonic influences in Western theology and the ways in which they reinforce systems and structures that militate against black freedom.9 His later works, A Black Theology of Liberation, God of the Oppressed,
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