Liberation

Wright is a Black Liberation Theologian and has been strongly influenced by the works of Dwight Hopkins, a professor of theology at the University of Chicago. Black Liberation Theology, as Hopkins defines it, embodies “how God, or the spirit of freedom, works with the oppressed black community for their full humanity.”

Both Black Liberation Theology and Liberation Theology of the Catholic tradition emerged in the 1960s when the radicalism of the era infused church work with new vigour for the social gospel. Justice for the poor and oppressed found its fullest expression in Latin America, where great revolutionary movements had Christians at their forefront. In many ways, this new theology was the successor to the civil rights movement, as the struggle moved into the socio-economic realm.

Some direct historical inspirations include: