Cross Examinations Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today

Name: Cross Examinations Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today
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ISBN: 9780800620462

ISBN-10: 0800620461

ISBN-13: 9780800620462

Edition: 2006

Authors: Marit A. Trelstad

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In today's theological landscape the significance of the cross has become strongly affirmed and radically questioned. This exciting volume gathers theologians and historians who have thought through these critical and constructive issues: Do traditional understandings of the cross valorize suffering or violence? Are the older soteriological models, which see redemption as a kind of ransom or debt satisfaction, fitting for the contemporary worldview? Do they produce a piety that acquiesces in needless suffering, or does the cross precisely meet the massive suffering and injustice of today's world? Following an expert introduction to the issues and options by editor Marit Trelstad, each

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 7/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.04" wide x 8.98" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Contributors


Preface


Introduction: The Cross in Context




The Cross in Racial and Gender Oppression



Black Women's Surrogacy Experience and the Christian Notion of Redemption




Our Mothers' Gardens: Rethinking Sacrifice




The Cross and Male Violence




Maternal Sacrifice as a Hermeneutics of the Cross




Becoming a Feminist Theologian of the Cross




Contextualizing the Cross for the Sake of Subjectivity




Lavish Love: A Covenantal Ontology




The Cross: God and the Suffering World



The Crucified God: Yesterday and Today: 1972-2002




All That Matters: What an Epistemology of the Cross Is Good For




Reading Ourselves into the Cross Story: Luther and United States Latinos




Imagining the Cross: Through the Eyes of Marian Kolodziej




A Theology of the Cross for the "Uncreators"




The Passion of Christ: Grace Both Red and Green




The Cross: Imperialism, Violence, and Peace



Saved by What Shouldn't Happen: The Anti-Sacrificial Meaning of the Cross




Violence in Christian Theology




The Cross of Resurrection and Communal Redemption




Theology of the Cross: Challenge and Opportunity for the Post-Christendom Church




The Cross as Military Symbol for Sacrifice




American Torture and the Body of Christ: Making and Remaking Worlds



Notes


For Further Reading


Index of Names


Index of Subjects