00:00:03 Audio begins with a prayer.
00:01:56 Charles Shelby Rooks delivers remarks about the Society.
00:08:11 James Cone gives comments and introduces the speaker, Charles Long.
00:12:33 Charles Long takes podium and thanks those in attendance.
00:16:29 Long talks about how the work of James Cone does not constitute the beginning of Black religion in the United States but it is a watershed in the study of Black religion, and how from Cones work one is able to set forth a basis to access the works prior to its time, and to plot new and different trends in Black religious studies.
00:21:14 Talks about the distinctive character of Cones work as the sustained systematic exposition and the theological critique of the oppressors from the stance of power.
00:39:48 Talks about his body of literature.
00:48:45 Raises questions about the relationship of Black theology to the Black church and the need for more historical, anthropological and sociological work and also Black biblical interpretation.
01:08:02 Ends presentation.
01:08:17 James Cone makes closing remarks.
01:12:17 Audio ends.