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| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Combat | ATK 90 DEF 80 SPR 92 SPD 70 INT 99 |
| Rank | Theologian / Professor at Union Theological Seminary / Founder of Black Liberation Theology as an academic discipline |
| Domain | Systematic theology, the Black experience as theological source, the cross and the lynching tree |
| Alignment | Holy / Liberation |
| Weakness | Early work (1969-1975) was deliberately confrontational and criticized for inadequately engaging Black women's experience -- a critique he accepted and which shaped womanist theology's emergence |
| Key Act | Born 1938 in segregated Bearden, Arkansas. PhD from Northwestern (1965). Published *Black Theology and Black Power* (1969) in response to the 1967 Detroit uprising and the failures of white American theology. Taught at Union Theological Seminary for fifty years. Late masterwork: *The Cross and the Lynching Tree* (2011), arguing that Christians cannot understand the cross without confronting American lynching |
| Source | Cone, *Black Theology and Black Power* (1969); *A Black Theology of Liberation* (1970); *God of the Oppressed* (1975); *The Cross and the Lynching Tree* (2011); *Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody* (2018, posthumous) |
“The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society.” — Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
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