Cross Examinations

<p>In today's theological landscape the significance ofthe cross has become strongly affirmed and radicallyquestioned. This exciting volume gathers theologiansand historians who have thought through these criticaland constructive issues: Do traditional understandingsof the cross valorize suffering or violence? Are the oldersoteriological models which see redemption as a kind ofransom or debt satisfaction fitting for the contemporaryworldview? Do they produce a piety that acquiesces inneedless suffering or does the cross precisely meet themassive suffering and injustice of today's world?</p><p>Following an expert introduction to the issues and optionsby editor Marit Trelstad each author addresses theChristian symbol of the cross in the context of currenttheological sociological political or environmental issues.</p>