November 22, 2024
What Is Black Liberation Theology?
At its most basic, Black liberation theology is a contextual theology that centers its focus on liberating Black people from historical and ongoing oppression—namely, the multi-layered, criminally zealous, racially motivated, and dehumanizing oppression of Black Americans by myriad generations of white Americans. Black theology envisions a Black God and Black Jesus who are completely aligned with and sympathetic to Black people’s ongoing struggle. (more…)