• Source: The Cross and the Lynching Tree

The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a book about black liberation theology written by James H. Cone.




Background


James H. Cone begins the book by providing a history of lynching in the United States and its impacts on black lives. Cone criticizes white clergy and academics for not making a connection between the crucifixion of Jesus and the black experience of lynching in the United States. Cone further criticizes the white church for actively participating in the lynching of black people throughout the 19th and 20th century. The second chapter of the book criticizes Reinhold Niebuhr for not speaking out against racism and lynching in the United States. The third chapter discusses Martin Luther King Jr. and his influence on Cone's work.
The book was published in 2011.




See also


Bibliography of Black theology




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External links


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• James Hal Cone
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree
• Lynching
• Lynching in the United States
• James H. Cone
• Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality
• List of lynching victims in the United States
• List of hanging trees
• Lynching of Michael Donald
• The God Who Riots
• Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle