Frederick Herzog, who was an impassioned champion of civil rights, taught Christian theology at Duke until his sudden death during a faculty meeting on October 9, 1995 and wrote the first North American article by a white theologian on liberation theology in the spring of1970.
An impassioned champion of civil rights, his academic focus was liberation theology. Herzog taught Christian theology at Duke until his sudden death during a faculty meeting on October 9, 1995. In the spring of 1970, he wrote the first North American article by a white theologian on liberation theology, following James Cone's Black Theology and Black Power published in 1969, and in 1972 his Liberation Theology was published. 
