Is God A White Racist?
Subtitle: A Preamble to Black Theology
By: William R. Jones.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Black theology.
Description: "Published originally as part of C. Eric Lincoln's series on the black religious experience, Is God a White Racist? is a landmark critique of the black church's treatment of evil and the nature of suffering. In this powerful examination of the early liberation methodology of James Cone, J.

Deotis Roberts, and Joseph Washington, among others, Jones questions whether their foundation for black Christian theism - the belief in an omnibenevolent God who has dominion over human history - can provide an adequate theological foundation to effectively dismantle the economic, social, and political framework of oppression.".

"Seeing divine benevolence as part of oppression's mechanism of disguise, Jones argues that black liberation theologians must adopt a new theism that is informed by humanism and its principle of the functional ultimacy of wo/man, where human choice and action determine whether our condition is slavery or freedom."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1973, in series: C. Eric Lincoln series on Black religion.
Table of contents: label: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: Prologue
pagenum: xix; label: Introduction
pagenum: xxi; label: Part I.
title: An Overview of Divine Racism; label: I.
title: Divine Racism: A Philosophical and Theological Analysis
pagenum: 3; label: II.
title: White god -- Black Protest
pagenum: 24; label: III.
title: Should a Priest Call a Doctor? Theodicy, Oppression, and Quietism
pagenum: 40; label: IV.
title: Divine Racism and Theological Method
pagenum: 61; label: Part II.
title: Black Suffering and Black Theology: An Internal Critique; label: V.
title: Divine Racism: The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology
pagenum: 71; label: VI.
title: Joseph Washington: Blacks as God's Suffering Servant
pagenum: 79; label: VII.
title: James Cone: God, Champion of the Oppressed
pagenum: 98; label: VIII.
title: Albert Cleage: God, A Black Soul Brother
pagenum: 121; label: IX.
title: Major Jones: Man, Cosufferer with God
pagenum: 132; label: X.
title: J. Deotis Roberts: A Psychology of Black Liberation
pagenum: 145; label: Part III.
title: Toward a Black Theodicy for Today; label: XI.
title: Towards a Prolegomenon to Black Theology
pagenum: 169; label: XII.
title: Humanocentric Theism: A Theistic Framework for Ethnic Suffering
pagenum: 185; label: Epilogue
pagenum: 203; label: Afterword
pagenum: 205; label: Notes
pagenum: 215; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 251; label: Index
pagenum: 253