![]() ![]() As a Black theologian, he felt he had to respond to the civil rights movement, especially after the death of MLK and the rise of urban riots in the US. ![]() He was strongly influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr. But Cone has much to say to us and reading his story I think matters to how we receive the rest of his work.Ĭone was an academic theologian. Many reduce Cone to just a “˜liberal theologian’ as if he has nothing to say to most of us. And I have previously read a couple of his other books. I read his The Cross and the Lynching Tree (which he says was his favorite book) this summer. But the important part of reading a memoir like this is that it gives context for his other writing. I have 20 that you can read on my Goodreads review. I could make this a post of just quotes from Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody. The passing of more than 40 years does matter. And of course there are some overlapping memories and reflections, but it is interesting to me how different they are. ![]() Almost exactly a year ago I read Cone’s 1985 memoir, My Soul Looks Back. That is especially true for a book like Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian by James H Cone. I am not really reviewing these books, I am trying to respond to them, give some thoughts and talk about what I have learned. Summary: Context to the why of Black Liberation Theology.Ī few months ago I generally stopped referring to my posts as reviews. ![]()
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