Black liberation theology and Obama's church
The New Yorker has an interesting piece by Kelefa Sanneh on Barack Obama's family church in Chicago and the impact of the Jeremiah Wright controversy on the church.
The article includes this assessment from James Cones, doyen of the black liberation theology movement in the United States: "Cone calls Trinity 鈥渢he best representation鈥 of black liberation theology. 鈥淚t鈥檚 offensive, because it speaks the truth in harsh, blunt terms,鈥 he says. Yet, after all those years of talking and organizing and agitating, Wright became black liberation theology鈥檚 most famous exponent a few weeks after he stepped aside, during a period when, for perhaps the first time in his adult life, he wasn鈥檛 holding forth on anything at all."
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