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While I find it meaningful to speak of Jesus as God's Black Christ who empowers African

My point is that one's social and historical

Throughout black history Scripture was used for a definition of God and Jesus that was consistent with the black struggle for liberation.

The Bible was written

from the perspective of the dominant class in Israel.

my basic theological perspective—that the God of biblical faith and black religion is partial toward the weak.

same for blacks and whites, because blacks and whites do not share the same life. The lives of a black slave and white slaveholder were radically different. It follows that their thoughts about things divine would also be different, even though they might sometimes use the same words about God. The life of the slaveholder and others of that culture

theology that must emerge out of the dialectic of black history and culture. Instinctively, I went to the Scriptures as the primary source for this new approach and asked, “What has the biblical message to do with the black power revolution?” My answer is found in my first book, Black Theology and Black Power (Seabury, 1969). My second book, A Blac