The Cross and the Lynching Tree Free Audiobook Download by James H. Cone

The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone narrated by Leon Nixon was one of the books I listened to recently on Audible. This book is about whether or not Jesus was a black prophet in America, or if he was white like most Christians today believe. The author does not settle on a position and leaves that up to the reader. The author argues that Jesus' teachings were primarily towards blacks because they were treated like criminals at the time Jesus lived.

The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a book about James Cone's life, his faith, and his work for the last three decades. It is an account of the civil rights movement from its beginnings to his becoming an influential black theologian. One side of Cone's story is that of change from the North to the South in which he was heavily involved and advocating for racial equality while living in Harlem in New York City and later as a professor at Union Theological Seminary.

The Cross and the Lynching Tree is James H. Cone's well known work that helps to uncover the nexus of white supremacy and Christianity in America. The cross and lynching tree go hand in hand throughout this text as they are both markers of a violent, conquering culture.

The Cross and the Lynching Tree is one of James H. Cone's most important books. It speaks about how Christianity has used the cross to justify lynchings and other atrocities.

It was the other way around. One day black men and white women were fighting on the streets of New York City, and then the Ku Klux Klan rode into town. The cross symbolized their enemy, and they wanted to lynch them all. We live in a time when many white people are thinking back to the lynching trees of history. In 1982 James H. Cone published his book explaining that in order to understand racism we need to go back even further to the origins of Christ's cross as a lynching tree.

In recent years, James H. Cone has emerged as one of the most vital voices in 20th-century world Christianity. In his new book, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, Cone seeks to establish a strong link between the cross of Jesus and an act of lynching that took place in Georgia during the Civil Rights movement.