With the publication of his two early works, Black Theology & Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology of Liberation (1970), James Cone emerged as one of the most creative and provocative theological voices in North America.
His books offered a searing indictment of white theology and society and introduced a radical presentation of the Christian message of our time.
Combining the visions of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
, Cone radically reappraised Christianity from the perspective of the .