Liberation

This article briefly offers an account of the Black theology movement as it emerged in the United States context. First, it offers a brief definition and aims of the movement. Second, it situates its emergence in the broader context of Western settler colonialism, American chattel slavery, and the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Black freedom struggle during the post-Civil Rights era. Then the article will analyze James H. Cone’s  pioneering work, Black Theology and Black Power. Finally, this article concludes with remarks regarding how the Black theology movement has developed since its inception. It does so by highlighting the work of several thinkers to signal trajectories for the movement’s further development.

• Systematische Theologie