For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church, 40th Anniversary Edition

“Unless we look honestly at our past, it is unlikely that we shall know what to do in the present for the shaping a creative Black future.”—James H. Cone “For My People is an indispensable part of James Cone’s theological corpus. It reveals his contribution to Black Theology as a discipline, recounting his turn to ‘extra church’ sources, and it seals his legacy as one of the most significant theologians in America's history, reminding the Christian community at large to engage in prophetic self-criticism.”—Raymond Carr, president, Society for the Study of Black Religion   Originally published in 1984, James Cone’s For My People remains an important landmark in the development of Black Theology. While tracing the origins of the movement, its relation to the Black Church, its engagement with other liberation theologies from the Global South, and the emergence of Womanist theology, he also offered telling reflections on the path ahead. Assessing this work, the great scholar C. Eric Linco