I read those. Since the dust up, I have heard Obama invoke the doctrine of social justice. Social justice is a term usually used to describe liberal theology in both Catholic and mainline protestant churches. That is smart of Obama because he is trying to give those in the MSM something to grab a hold of in his defense. . The social justice doctrine as I understand it usually comes from the teaching of Jesus, of which in the small sample of preaching that I have heard from Wright, I have not heard him invoke the name of Jesus. The Christianity taught in my experience is grounded in salvation through Christ and Christ as a personal saviour which comes from a reading of the Gospels which does not have to be terribly interpretative or a terribly profound reading. Obama is smart enough to know the MSM are his devoted allies and he is throwing some theology out for their consumption that chances are he h NEVER got in twenty years with Wright.
I disagree, I think that Wright instructed Obama to read Tillich and Niebuhr as a way to rationalize religion. I don’t know anyone who has read either of those theologians on their own, especially a non-Christian.
Second, is this passage from a Frontpage Mag article, which is especially relevant today.
n the book titled When Black Men Stand up for God, a collection of sermons and reflections on the Million Man March, Wright identifies Kwanzaa founder Maulana Karenga as an attendee of the rally.[13] In the end notes that follow a transcript of one of Wright's sermons, Karenga is described as "an internationally acclaimed social activist and scholar in Pan African Studies"; "the founder and creator of Kwanzaa, the well-known African American holiday"; and "the director of Pan African Studies and Visiting Lecturer in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside."[14] Unmentioned is the fact that Karenga is a self-identified "African socialist" whose "Seven Principles of Blackness," which are observed during Kwanzaa, are not only the Marxist precepts of parity and proletariat unity, but are also identical to those of the 1970s domestic terrorist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army. Nor is it noted that in 1971 Karenga was convicted of torturing two women who were members of United Slaves, a black nationalist cult he had established.