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Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers, and Karyn Lai to represent the philosophical traditions of ancient India, Africa and the African diaspora, and classical China. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.
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Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
After Albert Cleage and James Cone propose a liberatory interpretation of Christianity, William R. Jones wonders whether God is a white racist. We also follow Black Theology among “Womanist” authors and in South Africa.
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Could the historical variability of oppression over time form the basis of a rebuttal to Cone? If God’s character, whether benevolent or not, is taken as consistent, then perhaps the fact that Black people were not always enslaved or oppressed, and the presence of thriving Black societies in various times and places, be taken as evidence that a separate, changeable force (perhaps human free will) is the cause of Black oppression?