scholarly journals Introduction to the Forum on Dr. James H. Cone as Teacher and Mentor

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-80
Author(s):  
Pui-lan Kwok
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
York City ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Liberation Theology ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Transformative Impact

Dr. James H. Cone (1938-2018) is widely considered the founder of black liberation theology. He had a transformative impact on generations of his students at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In the semester following his death in Spring 2018, six of his current and recent doctoral students were gathered to share brief reflections on their experience of Dr. Cone as an inspirational teacher. This Forum collects their edited presentations in six short essays by: Nkosi Du Bois Anderson, Adam Clark, Isaac Sharp, Colleen Wessel-McCoy, Thurman Todd Willison, and Jason Wyman.

Liberation Theology and New York City Fiction

Thought ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-359
Author(s):  
Neil P. Hurley ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
York City

scholarly journals Looking Back at the Evolution of James Cone’s Theological Anthropology: A Brief Commentary

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 596
Author(s):  
Sekhmet Ra Em Kht Maat
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Black Theology ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Liberation Theology ◽  
Swiss German

Reverend Dr. James Hal Cone has unquestionably been a key architect in defining Black liberation theology. Trained in the Western theological tradition at Garrett Theological Seminary, Cone became an expert on the theology of Twentieth-century Swiss-German theologian Karl Barth. Cone’s study of Barth led to his 1965 doctoral dissertation, “The Doctrine of Man in the Theology of Karl Barth,” where he critically examined Barth’s Epistle to the Romans and Church Dogmatics. His contemporaries and more recent African American theologians and religious scholars have questioned the extent to which Karl Barth’s ideas shaped Cone’s Black theology. The purpose of this brief commentary is to review the major ideas in “The Doctrine of Man” and Black Theology and Black Power, his first book, to explore which theological concepts Cone borrows from Barth, if any, and how Cone utilizes them within his articulation of a Black theological anthropology and Black liberation theology.

Prologue II

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
George M. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Blue Ribbon ◽  
Union Theological Seminary ◽  
Blue Ribbon Committee ◽  
Mainline Protestantism

The Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, ’97, who chaired the blue-ribbon committee that in 1952 answered William F. Buckley Jr. with the categorical conclusion that “religious life at Yale is deeper and richer than it has been in many years,” could recall more distant student days when Yale’s religious life was deeper and richer still. Coffin was a renowned preacher, was the president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City (he had once been a leading candidate for the Yale presidency), and had done as much as anyone to shepherd mainline Protestantism from evangelicalism to theological modernism....

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