Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
By: James H. Cone
4.54
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
"As Martin Luther King said, we must learn to live together as human beings, treating each other wi…
Want to Read $ 13.50"Whether theologians acknowledge it or not, all theologies begin with experience ... We are all particular human beings, finite creatures, and we create our understanding of God out of our experience. Hopefully, our own experience points to the universal, but it is never identical with it. For when we mistake our own talk about God with ultimate reality, we turn it into ideology."-James H. Cone, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
"Whether theologians acknowledge it or not, all theologies begin with experience ... We are all particular human beings, finite creatures, and we create our understanding of God out of our experience. Hopefully, our own experience points to the universal, but it is never identical with it. For when we mistake our own talk about God with ultimate reality, we turn it into ideology."-James H. Cone, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
"Present-day Christians misinterpret the cross when they make it a nonoffensive religious symbol, a decorative object in their homes and churches. The cross, therefore, needs the lynching tree to remind us what it means when we say that God is revealed in Jesus at Golgotha, the place of the skull, on the cross where criminals and rebels against the Roman state were executed. The lynching tree is America's cross."-James H. Cone, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
"Present-day Christians misinterpret the cross when they make it a nonoffensive religious symbol, a decorative object in their homes and churches. The cross, therefore, needs the lynching tree to remind us what it means when we say that God is revealed in Jesus at Golgotha, the place of the skull, on the cross where criminals and rebels against the Roman state were executed. The lynching tree is America's cross."-James H. Cone, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
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31. Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
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