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Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today » (1ST)

Authors: Marit A. Trelstad
ISBN-13: 9780800620462, ISBN-10: 0800620461
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Date Published: August 2006
Edition: 1ST

	Introduction : the cross in context	1
Pt. I	The cross in racial and gender oppression
1	Black women's surrogacy experience and the Christian notion of redemption	19
2	Our mothers' gardens : rethinking sacrifice	33
3	The cross and male violence	50
4	Maternal sacrifice as a hermeneutics of the cross	63
5	Becoming a feminist theologian of the cross	76
6	Contextualizing the cross for the sake of subjectivity	91
7	Lavish love : a covenantal ontology	109
Pt. II	The cross : God and the suffering world
8	The crucified God : yesterday and today : 1972-2002	127
9	All that matters : what an epistemology of the cross is good for	139
10	Reading ourselves into the cross story : Luther and United States Latinos	154
11	Imagining the cross : through the eyes of Marian Kolodziej	165
12	A theology of the cross for the "uncreators"	181
13	The passion of Christ : grace both red and green	196
Pt. III	The cross : imperialism, violence, and peace
14	Saved by what shouldn't happen : the anti-sacrificial meaning of the cross	211
15	Violence in Christian theology	225
16	The cross of resurrection and communal redemption	241
17	Theology of the cross : challenge and opportunity for the post-Christendom Church	252
18	The cross as military symbol for sacrifice	259
19	American torture and the body of Christ : making and remaking worlds	264