The Cross In Our Context – Book Recommendation 5*
5 May 2004
The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World , by Douglas Hall Hall
Len Sweet put me on this for my doctoral programme reading. Hall ponders what confessing Jesus as crucified means in today’s context, one that is postmodern, pluralistic, multicultural, and in some respects post-Christian. This is a digest of a previous trilogy by him, and this book lays out in brief compass the heart of Hall’s theology of the cross, contrasting it sharply with the theology of established Christianity, showing how it reframes classical Christology and soteriology, and drawing the implications for what it means to be human, for Christian ethics, and for the church.
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Comment by Sivin Kit
3.09 pm on 5 May 2004
hey! this is a fabulous book I tried reading a little during Holy Week.. Now I need to catch up on it again with 5 other books pending!
Comment by gareth
4.17 pm on 5 May 2004
Sounds like a good book. does it differ much beyond what Moltmann says in ‘Crucified God’? I always loved Moltmann’s approach – even though we need to rework some of his thinking in the light of postmodernity.
I think there is definately a need for some deep thought and good books to be produced on atonement, christology, and perhaps most of all pneumatology. there have been some cosmic shifts in peoples understandings/views over the last 20 years or so but very little that has been succinctly written down and reflected on in the same depth as those old theological masters such as Barth, Moltmann etc…
Comment by steve
10.45 pm on 10 May 2004
read Hall for my masters (postmodern) reflection on atonement. good stuff. i made no obvious links between him and moltmann and I suspect Hall would not like barth. Hall is seeking a contextual, liberationist take on atonement in western context.
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