The Cross In Our Context – Essay
26 Jun 2004
The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World , by Douglas Hall Hall
I just submitted a reflection/essay to Len Sweet on this book that he asked for as part of my doctoral course.
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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 Richard Sudworth
9.15 am on 28 Jun 2004
Maybe Luther didn’t find much consolation from a theology of the cross precisely because of his context. How on earth do you relate that to Christendom in all its flowering? Isn’t the hope of the theology of the cross precisely in the weakness and failure, and that is what brings glory? ….an all too relevant message today
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