Our anniversary roundtable for the fourth installment of the Horizons anniversary collection features John R. Connolly's article "Revelation as Liberation from Oppression: Black Theology's Challenge for American Catholic Theology", from Horizons 26.2 (1999). 

M. Shawn Copeland (Boston College), winner of the 2024 College Theology Society’s Presidential Award, and Karen Teel (University of San Diego) generously agreed to write analyses of Connolly’s work. Their clear-eyed and expert reflections invite readers to reevaluate their engagement or lack of engagement with the charges from Cone and Connolly to reenvision white theology. Indeed, the shortcomings and sins of Horizons as complicit in structural racism and white theology necessarily emerge as a result of the roundtable. May the staff, authors, and readers of Horizons heed, ever so late, Cone’s challenges and Connolly’s example to us.