"But Do the Lord Care?": Tupac Shakur as Theologian of the Crucified People. Issue 4 (14th July 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: GRIMES, KATIE
• Is Part Of: Political theology. Volume 15:Issue 4(2014)
• Page Start: 326
• Page End: 352
• Publication Date: 2014-07-14
• Subjects: Tupac Shakur -- James Cone -- Roberto Goizueta -- crucified people -- Christology -- theological aesthetics -- Hans Urs von Balthasar -- hip hop -- war on drugs -- white supremacy; Christianity and politics -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Political theology -- Periodicals; Christian socialism -- Periodicals; 261.7094105
• DOI: 10.1179/1462317X14Z.00000000082
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1462-317X

Abstract

Abstract : The slain rapper Tupac Shakur contributes indispensably to two contemporary theologies centered around the crucified people, the theological aesthetics of liberation presented by Roberto Goizueta and the theology of the lynching tree articulated by James Cone. Placing the pioneering work of Goizueta and Cone in conversation with existing scholarship on the theological importance of Shakur's music, I argue that Tupac crafts a theological aesthetics of liberation aimed at illuminating the injustice and Christological implications of the hypersegregated ghetto and the black mass prison