Transfiguring a Theologia Crucis through James Cone

Brach S. Jennings takes the theme of theologia crucis that originated in Martin Luther's early texts - and was later transformed by Karl Barth's Barth's Erwählungslehre , Dietrich Bonhoeffer's later theology, and Jürgen Moltmann's eschatologia crucis - and transfigures it for the twenty-first century with the help of Black Liberation Theology founder James H. Cone's work. The result is a reading of Cone's constructive theology as a theologia crucis, located at the intersection of fundamental theology, hermeneutics, and material dogmatics, that befits a contemporary public theology of experiential wisdom ( sapientia ) attuned to global situations of oppression.