Rules of War: The Wartime Organization of Feeling in James Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power.

In this paper, I reframe Cone’s 1969 work as a work of revolutionary theology that reorganizes affect and emotion. Through his theology, James Cone declares war, turning Christian conceptions of love and reconciliation on their heads, putting forth a theological discourse that finds a way to be Christian and Black, and to do so with feeling. By renarrating Christian discourses with suffering Black bodies at the center, Cone creates a Black theological affective economy, placing emotion front and center in the Black theological project.