He attended Shorter College (1954–1956), a small AME Church junior college, before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Philander Smith College in 1958, where he was mentored by James and Alice Boyack. He and his family attended Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal Church. Life and career Ĭone was born on August 5, 1938, in Fordyce, Arkansas, and grew up in the racially segregated town of Bearden, Arkansas. He was the Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Columbia University-affiliated Union Theological Seminary until his death. His work has been both used and critiqued inside and outside the African-American theological community. Cone's work was influential from the time of the book's publication, and his work remains influential today. He argued that white American churches preached a gospel based on white supremacy, antithetical to the gospel of Jesus. Jesus came to liberate the oppressed, advocating the same thing as Black Power. His message was that Black Power, defined as black people asserting the humanity that white supremacy denied, was the gospel in America. His 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power provided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of theology in the black church. James Hal Cone (Aug– April 28, 2018) was an American theologian, best known for his advocacy of black theology and black liberation theology.
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