Labor of God: The Agony of the Cross as the Birth of the Church

ISBN-13: 9781481306492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 155 str.

Thomas Andrew Bennett

Opis

To a church immune to the radical character of its own message, Bennett resists the temptation to sanitize and relishes the offense--an offense that gives birth to a scandalous gospel for a secular age.--Mark S. Medley "Reading Religion"

Spis treści

• Chapter 1. Retrieving the Forgotten Root: The Scandal of the Cross as the Labor of God
• Chapter 2. Speaking the Labor of God: Metaphor and the Truth of Religious Language
• Chapter 3. Converting the Cross: How Torture Becomes Childbirth
• Chapter 4. Birthing the Church: How the Cross Addresses Sin
• Chapter 5. Transcending Exchange: How the Family of God Gives Up the Gift
• Chapter 6. Expanding the Agony of the Cross: How Labor Opens Fresh Theological Frontiers