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Passion of Christ, Passion of the World: The Facts, Their Interpretation, and Their Meaning Yesterday and Today - Softcover

Boff, Leonardo

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9781570759093: Passion of Christ, Passion of the World: The Facts, Their Interpretation, and Their Meaning Yesterday and Today
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ISBN 10: 157075909X ISBN 13: 9781570759093
Publisher: Orbis Books, 2011

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o First Place Award Winner in Spirituality, Catholic Press Association

A fine reinterpretation of atonement theory from a liberationist perspective. The central thesis holds: every understanding of Jesus death must begin with Jesus historical project embodied in his message and praxis of the kingdom of God.
--Roger Haight, author Jesus Symbol of God

This classic work of liberation theology explores the meaning of the Cross, both as it has been interpreted in the past and how it should be interpreted in the context of contemporary faith and circumstances. These particular circumstances include the poverty and repression, fear and violence under which so many of the world s people suffer today. In such a world, how can the Cross be understood and preached and what are the consequences of that understanding?

When Boff first wrote in the 1970s his immediate context was military dictatorship, torture, and violent repression. As he notes in his new Preface, that context must be enlarged today to include the passion of the Earth a continuation of the Passion of Christ in our time. The meaning of Christ s Cross remains the same: at once the symbol of a crime, and a sign of love and hope that violence does not have the last word.

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o First Place Award Winner in Spirituality, Catholic Press Association

A fine reinterpretation of atonement theory from a liberationist perspective. The central thesis holds: every understanding of Jesus death must begin with Jesus historical project embodied in his message and praxis of the kingdom of God.
--Roger Haight, author Jesus Symbol of God

This classic work of liberation theology explores the meaning of the Cross, both as it has been interpreted in the past and how it should be interpreted in the context of contemporary faith and circumstances. These particular circumstances include the poverty and repression, fear and violence under which so many of the world s people suffer today. In such a world, how can the Cross be understood and preached and what are the consequences of that understanding?

When Boff first wrote in the 1970s his immediate context was military dictatorship, torture, and violent repression. As he notes in his new Preface, that context must be enlarged today to include the passion of the Earth a continuation of the Passion of Christ in our time. The meaning of Christ s Cross remains the same: at once the symbol of a crime, and a sign of love and hope that violence does not have the last word.

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Publisher
Orbis Books
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
157075909X
ISBN 13 
9781570759093
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
146
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