biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Protestant theologian, born in Fordyce, Arkansas, USA. He studied at Philander Smith College (1958), received a PhD from Northwestern, and taught at two small colleges before becoming a professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City (1976). His A Black Theology of Liberation (1970) contained an angry critique of the presuppositions of white theologians. and a more measured statement of his views, God of the Oppressed followed in 1975. In 1987 appeared his autobiographical My Soul Looks Back. |
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