God opposes the proud: James Cone, white theologians, and Proverbs 3:34

Abstract

James Cone uses Scripture primarily to defend the liberation of the oppressed as the central metanarrative of the Bible. This article shifts the focus from God’s privileging of the poor to God’s opposition to the oppressor. Using an intertextual analysis of Prov 3:34, the article focuses on God’s opposition to the proud and what that opposition means as an expansion of Cone’s primary biblical thesis.