Transforming Atonement

by Jennings, Theodore W., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780800663506
• ISBN10: 0800663500
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

Jennings's truly fresh understanding for Christians of the meaning of Jesus' death specifically grounds the cross in the concrete political confrontation within which it occurred, relates the message about the cross to the practice of Jesus (thus keeping in relationship the gospels and the theology of Paul), and shows how the cross bears on overcoming of human division and sin, reconciliation to God, and new forms of social reality in the community of the crucified.

Author Biography

Theodore W. Jennings Jr. is Professor of Biblical and Constructive Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago. With interests ranging across Christian doctrine and biblical theology, his recent writings include Jacob's Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel; Reading Derrida, Thinking Paul; and The Insurrection of the Crucified.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Rethinking Atonement	p. 1
Worn-out language	p. 2
The contemporary problematic	p. 10
Outline of the project	p. 18
The Cross against the Principalities and Powers
Cross and Domination	p. 25
The historical reality of the cross	p. 29
The execution of Jesus	p. 31
The policy of Jesus	p. 34
The provocation of Jesus	p. 36
The cross against empire(Paul)	p. 40
The cross of the disciple	p. 43
(De)coding the cross (patristic perspectives)	p. 50
The cross against the violence of domination today	p. 55
The Cross and Division	p. 61
The practice of Jesus	p. 65
Handed over to the gentiles	p. 69
Gentile mission	p. 71
Patristic perspectives	p. 74
Neither slave nor free	p. 76
Neither male nor female	p. 79
The cross and division today	p. 80
Excursus: the election of Israel	p. 83
The Cross and Accusation	p. 85
The practice of Jesus	p. 86
The condemnation of Jesus	p. 96
Christ and sinners (Paul)	p. 98
Welcome one another (Paul)	p. 101
The cross against accusation today	p. 103
The Cross and Suffering	p. 105
Unjust suffering	p. 106
Unjust and "natural" suffering	p. 110
The ministry of Jesus	p. 112
Healings and the cross	p. 115
Martyrdom and mortality	p. 118
The bodies of women and slaves	p. 120
Body and earth	p. 120
The festival of life released from death	p. 122
Conclusion	p. 123
Reconciliation with God	p. 125
Appeasing divine wrath	p. 125
Who is reconciled?	p. 127
Overcoming han	p. 131
Implications of the Cross
The Community of the Crucified	p. 149
The centrality of the cross (1 Corinthians 1-3)	p. 150
The question of Communion	p. 159
Jesus and quarreling disciples	p. 163
Let love be genuine (Paul)	p. 167
The embattled community	p. 170
Old community or new?	p. 173
Dying with/in the Messiah	p. 175
The way of the cross	p. 178
Crucified to the flesh	p. 180
The question of asceticism	p. 190
The question of baptism	p. 193
Conclusion: A life of vulnerability to the other	p. 195
The Cross of God	p. 199
The passion of God: historical perspectives	p. 201
Nineteenth-century reflections	p. 205
Overcoming divine apathy	p. 206
Toward a political theology of the cross	p. 211
After Atonement?	p. 217
Notes	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 259
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