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Cousar believes that our North American dominant cultural values are massively resistant to a theology of the cross. The author then proposes that a very different set of categories are needed. The shift of categories touches every aspect of life, socio-economic and episetmological as well as ethical.
Title: A Theology of the Cross The Death of Jesus in the Pauline Letters By: Charles Cousar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Vendor: Augsburg Fortress Publication Date: 1990 | Dimensions: 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 X 1/2 (inches) Weight: 10 ounces ISBN: 0800615581 ISBN-13: 9780800615581 Series: Overtures to Biblical Theology Stock No: WW15581 |
In Paul's epistles the crucifixion story reveals a God who is free and in no way bound by human categories or expectations. Yet God in Christ chooses to be engaged in the very depths of the human predicament. The message of the crucifixion is that God's power is manifested in weakness, not in strength. The author believes that this "weakness as strength" should be the focal point of the church's identity. However, a celebration of weakness is in complete opposition to traditional American beliefs in personal strength and a powerful church.
"Ernst Ksemann ... has written on the theme [of the cross] most poignantly and penetratingly. Because the cross is endlessly relentless in its claim and restless in its critical voice, however, even Ksemann's rendering is not final.
"Cousar's book demonstrates that we can and must move beyond even Ksemann in our own obedient act of understanding and response to the cross. ... Cousar's careful adn acute exposition shows effectively that the cross cannot be contained in such a single category, but functions as a norm and singular definitional voice on a broad range of theological, interpretive, and ethical issues."from the Editor's Foreword, by Walter Brueggemann
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