Taking the Hagar story as the central biblical resource to address the particular plight of Black women—a plight that reckons with patriarchal and White supremacist forces that desire its enclosure—Delores Williams challenges both the traditional understanding of atonement theory which embraces the Cross as salvific and Black liberation theologies’ apocalyptical conceptions of a mighty liberating God. This article seeks to read Delores Williams closely to take seriously her theological development through literature more broadly and her soteriological critiques of the Cross specifically. A rereading of Williams will provide the grounds for continuing the debate of the Cross’s (in)significance within Black theological thought at large. Analyzing Williams’ soteriological critiques will allow me to offer a reading of the Cross that ultimately relies on Williams’ emphatic rejection. Such a rejection of the Cross is necessary for understanding how Black Christianity centers the Cross in order to reject it, as it is intended to be.

以夏甲的故事作为核心圣经资源来解决黑人女性的特殊困境——这种困境需要父权制和白人至上主义势力希望将其包围——德洛雷斯·威廉姆斯挑战了传统的赎罪理论理解，即将十字架视为救赎和黑人解放神学对一位强大的解放神的启示性概念。本文试图仔细阅读德洛雷斯·威廉姆斯，以更广泛地认真对待她通过文学的神学发展，特别是她对十字架的救赎论批评。重读威廉姆斯的著作将为在整个黑人神学思想中继续辩论十字架的（不）重要性提供基础。分析威廉姆斯的救赎论批评将使我能够提供对最终依赖于威廉姆斯的坚决拒绝的十字架的解读。这种对十字架的拒绝对于理解黑人基督教如何以十字架为中心以拒绝它是必要的，因为它是故意的。