The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ - Softcover

Fleming Rutledge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802875343 ISBN 13: 9780802875341

Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017

Synopsis

Though the apostle Paul boldly proclaimed Christ crucified as the heart of the gospel, Fleming Rutledge notes that preaching about the cross of Christ is remarkably neglected in most churches today. In this book Rutledge addresses the issues and controversies that have caused pastors to speak of the cross only in the most general, bland terms, precluding a full understanding and embrace of the gospel by their congregations.

Countering our contemporary tendency to bypass Jesus crucifixion, Rutledge in these pages examines in depth all the various themes and motifs used by the New Testament evangelists and apostolic writers to explain the meaning of the cross of Christ. She mines the classical writings of the Church Fathers, the medieval scholastics, and the Reformers as well as more recent scholarship, while bringing them all into contemporary context.

Widely known for her preaching, Rutledge seeks to encourage preachers, teachers, and anyone else interested in what Christians believe to be the central event of world history.
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"This is a work of a lifetime that could only be written by someone who has lived a life determined by the cross." author of 'The Jesus Creed' --Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School

"In this remarkable study of the cross Fleming Rutledge weaves together many metaphors, motifs, and themes into a hermeneutically well-reasoned synthesis. She has mastered an incredible amount of material, including biblical scholarship, the history of theology, and contemporary systematic theology. And she is a master communicator. This is a great book." --Arne Rasmusson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

"Fleming Rutledge's reputation as a preacher is widely known, her rhetorical skills of logos, ethos, and pathos; of content, engagement, and passion widely respected. This treatment of the crucifixion the fruit of almost two decades, and indeed of a lifelong journey could in fact also be read as one long sermon. . . . What does it mean to say that Jesus Christ died for us? Honestly facing her own resistance to many traditional and contemporary framings of this question, she consults widely and delves deeply into biblical, historical, and interpretive material in search of her own answers. . . . Informing, reminding, critiquing, illustrating, unmasking, challenging, reassuring, encouraging, and inspiring, she writes for both preachers and listeners. The question 'Will it preach?' is in fact her major concern. The answer can only be a resounding and grateful 'Yes'!" --Dirk Smit, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

About the Author

Fleming Rutledge is an Episcopal priest widely recognized in North America and the UK as a preacher, lecturer, and teacher of other preachers. Her published sermon collections, most recently And God Spoke to Abraham: Preaching from the Old Testament, have received acclaim across denominational lines. Among her other books are The Bible and The New York Times, Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Sermons from Paul s Letter to the Romans, and The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien s Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings.
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Edition details

• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0802875343
• ISBN 13: 9780802875341
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 696