Labor of God: The Agony of the Cross as the Birth of the Church
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (835 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1481306499 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 155 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Thomas Andrew Bennett is Affiliate Assistant Professor of Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary
This ancient understanding of the cross enables a fresh theology of Christian atonement, one better able to answer questions of sin, suffering, and divine violence. Yet, by making the death of Jesus central to its preaching and worship, Christianity took a scandal, the cross, and called it a gospel. In Labor of God, author Tom Bennett revisits the church's speech about the cross. As Bennett argues, this understanding of the cross can also reshape the classical systematic doctrines of creation, election, soteriology, and the church. Developed through close readings of biblical texts and interaction with voices from theology and the sciences, Labor of God shows how the Christian message of the cross can once again prick the ears and trouble the hearts of those who hear it. To a church immune to the radical character of its own message, Bennett
"In this wonderfully creative and astute work Tom Bennett recovers and extends a minority strand of Christian tradition in which the cross of Christ is understood as the labor of God. Bennett's account of the metaphor of divine labor offers rich insight into what it means to confess that Christ's death is a death for us and will surely help to reinvigorate the Church's proclamation of the atonement and of the new life it brings."Murray Rae, Professor of Theology, University of Otago"In this insightful, eloquent work, Thomas Bennett expounds a si