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Introducing James H. Cone: A Personal Exploration
Introducing James H. Cone: A Personal Exploration
Anthony G. Reddie
SCM Press, 2022, x + 214 pp., pbk, £19.99
In 1996 Anthony Reddie attended a lecture by James H. Cone in Birmingham. In the questions from the audience that followed, a Black pastor asked what Reddie describes as a ‘non-legitimate question’. This is the kind of question that, with depressing frequency, is put to Black academics. It begins with flattery; then comes the ‘but’, and the real question, which is designed to display the superiority of the questioner and ‘to remind the audience of the anomaly, indeed the contradiction, of the Black speaker being equated with the status of the expert’ (20). Cone’s response, continues Reddie’s recollection, ‘was a case study in the slow, enveloping discharge of prophetic rhetoric’, which left ‘the audience aghast, and the respondent’ silent.
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