The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross

By Vitor Westhelle

"Theology of the Cross" is an important site of religious reflectionand controversy, especially today. Westhelle repeatedly uncoversthe evasions - personal, social, religious, and even theological - bywhich we skirt the sharp challenge that the Cross and sufferinglove pose to a culture, lifestyle, and economy that avoid sufferingand evade love. And he challenges every Christian to embraceJesus' cross to find our own resurrection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800638956
• ISBN13: 9780800638955
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.6"