Cone's Binary View of Africanness and Christianity Through the Eyes of his African American Critics

Unlike some of his American colleagues, James Cone tended to distance Black Theology from Africanness in general and African Traditional Religions in particular. Throughout his life this tendency has evolved, but never disappeared altogether. This article sets out to achieve three goals. First, I gi...

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Published in:Missionalia
Main Author: Urbaniak, Jakub 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of South Africa [2018]
In: Missionalia
RelBib Classification:BS Traditional African religions
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
FD Contextual theology
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KBQ North America
Further subjects:B James Cone
B Africanness
B Charles Long
B Cecil Cone
B Gayraud Wilmore
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Summary:Unlike some of his American colleagues, James Cone tended to distance Black Theology from Africanness in general and African Traditional Religions in particular. Throughout his life this tendency has evolved, but never disappeared altogether. This article sets out to achieve three goals. First, I give a historical account of Cone's relationship with Africa, particularly with African religiosity, focusing on the criticism he received from his colleagues in the U.S. (notably Gayraud Wilmore, Cecil Cone and Charles Long). Second, I analyse the tension between the Christian and the African in Cone's theological outlook by probing his notion of indigenization/Africanization among others. Third, I seek to interpret Cone's binary view of Christianity and Africanness in the light of his chief locus of enunciation, namely Western Christianity (albeit contested). My attempt here is to lay foundations for an engagement with Cone's attitude toward Africanness from the current South African (decolonial) perspective by considering it, first, within its original African American context.
ISSN:2312-878X
Contains:Enthalten in: Missionalia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.7832/46-2-308