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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.

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

The black experience and the Bible together in dialectical tension serve as my point of departure today and yesterday. The order is significant. I am black first—and everything else comes after that.