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Title: Risks of Faith : The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998 by James H. Cone ISBN: 0807009512 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: A Mixed Bag
Comment: This is a collection of essays written over a 31-year period (1968-1998). As might reasonably be expected, Cone has matured and learned his craft better over the years. The older essays are still worth reading, but the best ones are those he wrote during the eighties and nineties, especially the ones he wrote in 1994 and 1998.
Cone's "Black Theology" is a "Liberation Theology." Cone contends that liberation is the central message of the Bible. While it is clear that a message of liberation can be found in the Bible, it is not the central message of the Torah or the Prophets. The particular liberation that these books extoll is liberation OF THE JEWS. Not until the Pauline Epistles and the lectionaries of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John do we get some hint of a message of liberation for everybody. Even then, the message of liberation is not really for everyone; Paul advises slaves to obey their masters "in all things", and advises masters to give their servants "that which is just and equal," (Col. 3:22-4:1)
But although Cone sometimes overstates his case, this is definitely a book to be taken seriously. Cone gives us whites the opportunity to see ourselves thru the eyes of an intelligent and articulate black person. We may not greatly like all that we see, but it is up to US to remake ourselves into non-racists. Neither James Cone, nor Malcolm X., nor Martin Luther King, nor Whitney Young, nor any of their black successors can do that for us. WE must act. Cone can help show us how, but WE must take seriously the need to change ourselves. We must cure ourselves of racism, and sexism, and every other ism that permits us to discount others because of their race, religion, sex, sexuality, etc.
If we don't realize that there is a problem, we are not going to solve it. Read "Risks of Faith." If you are not a Christian, just ignore Cone's Christian bias. It isn't essential to the insights you can obtain from the book. Insights into the content and pervasiveness of racism can help Atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, and others, as well as Christians to see where their act needs cleaning up and to get going on what needs to be done.
This book should strike a responsive chord especially among Jews, who have been persecuted in most of the same ways, and just as unfairly, as blacks.
Thank you, James H. Cone, for "Risks of Faith." Keep up the good work.
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Title: God of the Oppressed by James H. Cone ISBN: 1570751587 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Black Theology of Liberation by James H. Cone ISBN: 0883446855 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church by James H. Cone ISBN: 0883441063 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: 1984 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Black Theology and Black Power by James H. Cone ISBN: 1570751579 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation by James H. Cone ISBN: 0883448432 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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