Black theology emerges from Black Christian experience as a survival resource

Evidence

“The black church has not only nurtured black people but enabled them to survive brutalities that ought not to have been inflicted on any community of men,” they wrote. “Black Theology is the product of black Christian experience and reflection. It comes out of the past. It is strong in the present. And we believe it to be redemptive for the future.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1056

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the National Conference of Black Churchmen’s own articulation of what Black theology is and where it comes from.
• XREF: connects to: Cone’s Black liberation theology frames Civil Rights era primary texts for students — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 491; Spiritual salvation and political racial advancement were fused in black church tradition — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 565