2015 MLK Lecture with Professor James H. Cone

The Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School held the 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture featuring James H. Cone, the Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, as the guest lecturer. Professor Cone delivered his lecture on April 1.
The annual lecture series features national and community lecturers who address the issues of justice, peace and liberation in relation to the black religious experience.

[@rev.marynewbern-williams7399]

James Cone was an incredible theologian and fine preacher of the Gospel. Honored to have met him once, and to have and to have read his books. What a gift to the world. Thank you, Lord.

[@hesedjackd.alvarez2452]

Kudos to Jame H. Cone! Greetings from the Philippines! Black and Brown Power! Glory to God!

[@JackPitts]

There is unspeakable power and redemption in this word.

[@robertjensen2328]

It's sad to hear someone who doesn't know Christ but thinks he does. Such as Cone. Or anyone who thinks Cone is someone to admire as a Christian thinker. Cone is evil.

[@robertjensen2328]

And this passes for a scholarly argument in your neck of the 'hood?

[@TheUmmahFightCamp]

Robert Jensen: It is not a debate lol. That is first. Next, your definitions do not matter to me in the least. The reality is you and people like you are sociopaths the likes of the world has never seen. For a man to be called a racist because he does not like racism is proof that white privileg sabotages the maturity of white people everywhere.

[@robertjensen2328]

You're not a Christian. You don't know Christ. So don't pretend to be able to teach others about God or the Bible. Maybe someday you'll have something to say, but not today. As the UNCF used to say, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." You're wasting yours. And Cone wasted his. Don't be a lost cause like Cone.

[@geekmeee]

@@robertjensen2328 Please tell us more... about your opinion, which you are entitled to.

[@francysjohnson6153]

James Cone is our Liberation as was Martin Luther to the Reformation.

[@robertjensen2328]

Your sentence makes no sense. It is literally nonsense.

[@jasonstone5953]

I love how Dr. Cone takes it to church in his answer to the final question.

[@lada8638]

Masterfully stated justification of Blk emancipatory reason and faith

[@lazarusfowsta]

Awesome word

[@shawnburnham1]

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[@fccnmedia7030]

Am immigrant theology

[@robertjensen2328]

Here are seven living black men who are head and shoulders above James Cone, intellectually (and probably morally as well): Ben Carson, Larry Elder, Jason L. Riley, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, and Walter Williams.

[@thomasrizzo4368]

Robert Jensen = Blank, sock-puppet account for a corrupt system!

[@robertjensen2328]

TR, you're babbling.

[@megt2551]

you have a nasty spirit and yet Mr. Cone, one of my heroes, advocates loving people like you. That makes him morally superior to most.

[@robertjensen2328]

Well, Meg, sorry you can't handle the truth. Cone was a racist, pure and simple, and the world is better off without him. You can remain deluded. Or you can listen to the guys I put up as very much more superior to that false prophet Cone (namely, Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, etc.). But you won't be convinced, because like all Leftists you are living in a fantasy world.

[@danielwareking]

Ah yes, the black people who figured out there was quite a market for convincing racist white people that they are not in fact racist. Can't imagine why you like them. You must find Martin Luther King's teachings quite abhorrent as well, I assume.