Published May 2001
by Augsburg Fortress Publishers .
Written in English
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | 208 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL7843616M |
| ISBN 10 | 0800632834 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780800632830 |
The executed God takes believers on a journey into the pain and suffering of a broken world and proffers the power to persist and transform. The Way of the Cross finds God in the marginalized, abandoned, and despised, the people who know life through struggle. The Executed God is an important book grappling with an important topic/5(8). In The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Princeton Theological Seminary professor Mark Lewis Taylor attacks U.S. prisons as racist and unjust. Taylor discusses violations such as prison rape, excessively long sentences and capital punishment, employing the example of Jesus as a means of transforming an evil system/5(2). The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylor’s award-winning The Executed God is both a searing indictment of the structures of “Lockdown America” and a visionary statement of hope. It is also a call for action to Jesus followers to resist US imperial projects and by: A great deal of research has been done on that predicament, and Mark Tailor’s book The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (Minneapolis: Fortress, ; 2nd revised and expanded ed.), has made substantial contributions, beginning with its first publication in to its substantially revised and expanded version in
Read this book on Questia. "In The Executed God, theologian Mark Taylor dares to address the meaning of Jesus' execution for an American culture that now maintains more than 3, U.S. residents on the death rows of its burgeoning prisons.". Winner of the Best General Interest Book Award, from the American Theological Association, The Executed God reinterprets Jesus, his journey to execution in a tumultuous period of Roman empire, as a “way of the cross,” a creative, artful mode of challenging political antagonisms. The Book of Acts indicates that Paul was a Roman citizen by birth, and might then have been arrested in Troas, and taken to Rome and executed. [2 Tim. ] Marcion believed Jesus was the savior sent by God, and Paul the Apostle was his chief apostle, Born: c. 5 AD, Tarsus, Cilicia, Roman Empire. Executed God: way of the cross in lockdown America User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict In this work, Taylor (theology and culture, Princeton Theological Seminary) discusses the similarities between the current U.S. prison system and that of 4/5(1).
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