11 Cone acknowledged that, in fact, his position is «in company with all the
classic theologies of the Christian tradition,» though, of course, with a different point of departure: the plight of the oppressed.12 Biblically, he focused on the redemptive suffering of Jesus (
coupled with his resurrection as a defeat of suffering) and expressed the eschatological point that God has in fact defeated the powers of evil even though we still
encounter them and are called to fight against them, «becoming God's suffering servants in the world.»
The title, by the way, comes from a 1965 cult
classic in which «Three strippers seeking thrills
encounter a young
couple in the desert.»