Theology of the Cross and Theologies of Liberation

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-166
Author(s):  
Harold Wells
Author(s):  
Richard Viladesau

This work surveys the ways in which theologians, artists, and composers of the early modern period dealt with the passion and death of Christ. The fourth volume in a series, it locates the theology of the cross in the context of modern thought, beginning with the Enlightenment, which challenged traditional Christian notions of salvation and of Christ himself. It shows how new models of salvation were proposed by liberal theology, replacing the older “satisfaction” model with theories of Christ as bringer of God’s spirit and as social revolutionary. It shows how the arts during this period both preserved the classical tradition and responded to innovations in theology and in style.


2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-192
Author(s):  
Hans Wiersma

Horizons ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Robert Faricy

AbstractThis article studies the spiritual theology of the cross in the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In Teilhard's books and articles the accent falls on the cross as a symbol of progress. The cross stands for Jesus' positive act of saving the world through his death; it represents, too, Christian life as a sharing in the cross of Jesus through the labor and pain of human progress. In his spiritual notes, however, Teilhard takes a different perspective. His own meditations on the cross center not on the cross as a positive symbol of personal and collective progress through struggle, but rather on death as the ultimate fragmentation, and as an apparent dead end that is the final passage to Jesus Christ.


2000 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Andreas Euler

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Zumstein

Within early Christianity Paul of Tarsus is a representative of the kerygmatic tradition in which Christ’s death and resurrection are viewed as the central event of salvation. In this sense he adopts the traditional interpretations of Jesus’ death. However, he also reverses traditional hermeneutics by suggesting a new reading of Christ’s death, called ‘theology of the cross’. This innovative interpretation considers the cross as the exclusive locus of God’s revelation, his judgment and salvation. This way of interpreting forms the structural backbone of Pauline theology.


2000 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOEL MARCUS

Claiming that Mark is a Paulinist does not require that he agree with Paul about everything, and plausible reasons can be advanced for a later Paulinist wanting to write the story of the earthly Jesus. Martin Werner's assertion that the agreements between Mark and Paul reflect general early Christian viewpoints is not valid with regard to the theology of the cross, which was a controversial Pauline emphasis and a stress that the later Gospels attenuated in editing Mark. Contrary to Werner, Mark and Paul agree in ascribing Jesus' death to a combination of human and demonic opponents.


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