![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This stress on the interior life of the individual, and individual expression of belief, is accompanied by a focus on universals: that which is at the heart of all religious experience and which all people share. I sometimes see this lead to a valuing of the spiritual over the material, of the soul over the body. Within white liberal Quakerism there’s an emphasis on the spiritual experience of the individual. A challenge to inward spirituality and universals This post is merely a sketch of first thoughts in response to this particular book, a record of my own learning process, which will hopefully help the learning process of other white Quakers. I’m yet to familiarise myself with this conversation. Cone authored many other works, and his work has been much discussed and critiqued within the black theological community. I should say that this is only the third work of black theology I’ve read, and it’s the first book I’ve read by James Cone. I’m going to list what I think are the main challenges this book presents to white liberal Quakers. I found it both exciting and disturbing, and I need to process what I’ve read. ![]() I’ve just finished James Cone’s ‘A Black Theology of Liberation’, first published in 1970, and it has stirred me up. Every now and again I encounter a book that gives me such a jolt it demands to be talked about. ![]()
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