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If asked the theological question, “Who is God?” one black person might say: “I don't know much about him. All I know is that I was weak and God gave me strength. I was lost and God found me. I was crying and Jesus wiped away the tears from my eyes.” Another might proclaim her testimony in this manner: “God is a heart-fixer and a mind-regulator. Go
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from the perspective of the dominant class in Israel.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
targeting Black voters.20
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
people is to relate the story of our mothers’ and fathers’ struggles to our present struggles and thereby create a humane future for our children. We must take the speeches and tales, the blues and the spirituals, the prayers and the sermons of black people and incorporate them into our present existence, relating our parents’ strivings to our dail
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Father or divine and human, though the orthodox formulations are implied in their language. They ask whether Jesus is walking with them, whether they can call him up on the “telephone of prayer” and tell him all about their troubles. To be sure Athanasius’ assertion about the status of the Logos in the Godhead is important for the church's continue
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An analysis of the teaching of Jesus reveals that there is much that deals with the problems created by fear. After his temptation in the wilderness Jesus appeared in the synagogue and was asked to read the lesson. He chose to read from the prophet Isaiah the words which he declared as his fulfillment: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he
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broken heart and eases the pain of the afflicted. Jesus rescued me from the gates of hell and restored my soul to his bosom.”
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
revealed, in fact, that they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim but had no sense of him as a man.