"Any talk about God that fails to make God's liberation of the oppressed its starting point is not Christian."
About James H. Cone
James Hal Cone was an American Methodist minister and theologian. He is best known for his advocacy of black theology and black liberation theology. His 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power provided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of theology in the black church.
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