![]() ![]() Moreover, it does so in ways that promise to open up a new future for humanity in which the major crises of the modern age will have been decisively addressed and many of the disastrous contradictions that have plagued the historical practice of Christian prayer will have been overcome. ![]() To do this, we shall study the works of one of their most thought-provokingly theological interpreters: James Cone.Īs in other cases, so too here, prayer becomes an indispensable source of intellectual and practical insight regarding the mysteries of God and the world. Here we shall seek to remember not only the songs whose sonorous refrains carry the sorrows and hopes of this prayerful tradition through the undersides of American modernity but also the thoughts that these songs communicate. Let us turn then, finally, to the prayers of the slaves, the fugitive wisdom of the hush arbor, and the doxological spirituality that has grown together with black diasporic existence through four long centuries of transatlantic terror and inhumane captivity to the still uncertain conditions of the present. ![]()
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