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Enthralling interview with the founder of Black Liberation Theology, James H. Cone. Cone bears witness to his Christian faith, which is the center of his life. He reads the sacred scriptures from the vantage point of the poor and the oppressed. He says that an appropriate symbol for the cross in our day is a lynched black man. Cone's theology is centered squarely on the Cross of Christ. Cone says that to become authentic Christians, we must identify with the powerless, not the powerful. Cone states in the beginning of his interview that he has sought with his theology to combine the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King Jr. with the Black Power Movement represented by Malcom X.
"The Cross is God taking the side of the victim...God making ultimate identification with the powerless...if you want to be a Christian, you have to identify with the powerless. You can't be a Christian and identified with the powerful, that is a contradiction in terms...I read the scriptures from the vantage point of the the weak, the poor, and the helpless. You see that in the book of Amos and the prophets...and in the Exodus, and in the story of Jesus' life of Jesus, and in the Cross." - James H Cone
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