{"id":95,"date":"2009-09-02T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2009\/09\/what-color-is-2.html"},"modified":"2009-09-02T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T02:00:00","slug":"what-color-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2009\/09\/what-color-is-2.html","title":{"rendered":"What Color is Jesus?–A case study in jazz theology (part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

<\/a> <\/a><\/a>Let's let one of my favorte jazz theologians take a solo for the next two posts. James Cone is a bit controversial but he'll had some creative tension to the conversation<\/p>\n

In 1975, Cone, wrote, "If twentieth-century Christians are to speak the truth for their sociohistorical situation, they cannot<\/strong> merely repeat the story of what Jesus did and said<\/strong> in Palestine, as if it were self-interpreting for us today. Truth is more than the retelling<\/strong> of the biblical story. Truth is the divine happening<\/strong> that invades our contemporary situation,<\/strong> revealing the meaning of the past for the present so that we are made new creatures for the future."<\/p>\n

Cone is describing what I think the essence of jazz theology.<\/strong> When our hunger for God, the song of God, our questions, joys and pains, converge<\/strong> with Jesus "the divine happening that invades our contemporary situation."
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Cone asserts that our Christology must know Jesus as He was<\/strong>, as He is<\/strong> AND also as He will<\/strong> be<\/strong>.
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So what color is Jesus?<\/strong> Well, we know what color he was<\/strong> (a middle-eastern man with all the telltale characteristics); we can only imagine what color he is<\/strong> now(with feet like brass and eyes like fire…Rev. 1) but what color will he be…to you…to me…today? <\/strong>
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(quotes taken from, "God of the Oppressed" by James Cone)<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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