RT Article
T1 The Labour of Black Love: James Cone, Womanism, and the Future of Black Men’s Theologies
JF Black theology
VO 19
IS 1
SP 3
OP 17
A1 Wickware, Marvin E.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/175654638X
AB Following James Cone’s death, Black male theologians must ask how we might properly honour his influence upon our ongoing work, while reckoning with its limits in relation to his struggle to fully appreciate womanist critiques. This article focuses on love as a central theme in Cone’s theology, engaging with Cone’s work, as well as Delores Williams’s Sisters in the Wilderness and Hortense Spillers’s “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.” This article proposes that Cone fails to address the injustice inherent in accepting the affective labour of love as women’s work. As a disciplinary intervention, this article suggests that Black male theologians must open ourselves to being transformed and fully drawn into that labour of love. As a constructive theological argument, this article finds a point of consonance between Cone’s and Williams’s Christologies. Jesus embraced freedom guided by love, offering ministerial vision to many, rejecting imperial power on and of the cross.
K1 Womanism
K1 Affect
K1 Love
K1 Hortense Spillers
K1 Delores Williams
K1 James Cone
DO 10.1080/14769948.2021.1896841