James H. Cone Quote

By focusing on Scripture, theology is granted the freedom to take seriously its social and political situation without being determined by it. Thus the question is not whether we take seriously our social existence but how and In what way we take It seriously. Whose social situation does our theology represent? For whom do we speak?... We are forced by Scripture itself to focus on our social existence, but not merely in terms of our own interests.... There can be no Christian speech about God which does not represent the interest of the victims in our society.

Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986), pp. 7-8