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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,...

and liberating event in the lives of the oppressed that makes possible the continued struggle for freedom.”20 From this point of view, the person of Jesus Christ becomes interdependent with the plight of the oppressed in general, and the experience of black people in particular. According to Cone, “because liberation is God’s work of salvation in Jesus Christ, its source and meaning cannot be separated from Christology’s sources (Scripture, tradition, and social existence) and content (Jesus in his
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