James Cone's Legacy for White Christians. Issue 3 (2nd April 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- James Cone's Legacy for White Christians. Issue 3 (2nd April 2020)
- Main Title:
- James Cone's Legacy for White Christians
- Authors:
- Norris, Kristopher
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: This article explores James Cone's lesson and legacy for white Christians. Specifically, it analyzes Cone's claim that whites can "become black." Cone insists that a process of conversion to blackness "means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness), and follow Christ (black ghetto)." In this essay, I will draw upon Cone's writings and original interview material to construct an outline of these three steps of becoming black. Making sense of what it means to convert to blackness begins with first analyzing his specific challenge to white theology, then his concepts of blackness and the Black Christ, and finally, the praxis of these three steps – that is, what does it look like, practically, to follow the black Christ as a white person.
- Is Part Of:
- Political theology. Volume 21:Issue 3(2020)
- Journal:
- Political theology
- Issue:
- Volume 21:Issue 3(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 21, Issue 3 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0021-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 207
- Page End:
- 224
- Publication Date:
- 2020-04-02
- Subjects:
- James Cone -- black liberation theology -- blackness -- white supremacy -- narrative -- whiteness -- womanist theology
Christianity and politics -- Great Britain -- Periodicals
Political theology -- Periodicals
Christian socialism -- Periodicals
261.7094105 - Journal URLs:
- http://essential.metapress.com/content/122840/ ↗
http://maneypublishing.com/ ↗
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=17 ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1733741 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1462-317X
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- Legaldeposit
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