![]() ![]() in 1965 and taught at Philander Smith College and Adrian College, Cone's theological creativity bore fruit with his first book, Black Theology and Black Power (1969). His father became his decisive role model for what it meant to be a poor, proud African-American man in a predominantly white society.Ĭone's theological reflections are products of both the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1950s and 1960s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Second, the negative effects of segregation and white racism left him with an intolerance for discrimination.īorn into a family of modest means (his father cut wood), Cone experienced poverty and grew to appreciate the problems of the poor in American society. First, the wholesome encouragement and support of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and Bearden's black community reinforced his fundamental sense of self-worth and his Christian convictions. His intellectual, emotional, and racial identities developed out of two threads of his childhood experiences. He received degrees from Philander Smith College (B.A.), Garrett Theological Seminary (B.D.), and Northwestern University (M.A., Ph.D.). Theologian James Hal Cone was born in Fordyce, Arkansas, in 1938 and was raised in Bearden, Arkansas. ![]()
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