The Cross and the Lynching Tree THE CROSS AND THE LYNCHING TREE
James H. Cone Orbis Books, 2011 Cone analyzes how Christianity’s
aspirations for transcendence intersect with its participation
in the structure of American racism—a story frequently told in
the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement but now largely
forgotten. A professor of systematic theology at Union
Theological Seminary, Cone played an important role in educating
Protestant ministers in the Sixties on the importance of
supporting the Civil Rights Movement, and his earlier book A
Black Theology of Liberation became one of the most significant
Christian theological texts in the world. Here he is, forty
years later, once again urging Christians to reject dogmatic
formulas and tap back into the liberation energies he once
stirred. (To return to the Winter 2012 Table of Contents, click
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