The crucifixion of Jesus : history, myth, faith / Gerard S. Sloyan.

Author
Sloyan, Gerard S., 1919- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©1995.
Description
x, 228 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    What was crucifixion? Why was Jesus of Nazareth executed and what really happened? Gerard Sloyan begins with history and traces the development of the New Testament accounts of Jesus' death. He shows how Jesus' death came to be seen as sacrificial and how the evolving understandings of Jesus' death affected those who suffered most from it - the Jews. He then traces the emergence and development - in theology, liturgy, literature, art - of the conviction that Jesus' death was redemptive, as seen both in soteriological theory from Tertullian to Anselm, in the Reformation and modern eras, and in more popular religious responses to the crucifixion. Especially fascinating is the story of the emergence of a distinct "Passion piety" that still characterizes the West. In all this Sloyan detects the separation of the cross from Jesus' life and resurrection, allowing the mythicizing of an event too large for mere words to handle: the mystery of the cross
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Crucifixion and why Jesus was sentenced to it
    • How Jesus' death came to be seen as sacrificial and redemptive
    • Patristic attribution of Jesus' death to the Jews
    • Theories of expiation and satisfaction: from Tertullian to Anselm and beyond
    • The popular passion piety of the Catholic west
    • Modern soteriological thinking: cross, creation, and universal redemption
    • Piety centered on Jesus' sufferings
    • A variety of responses to a crucified redeemer.
    ISBN
    • 0800628861 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780800628864 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0800629302
    • 9780800629304
    LCCN
    95002480
    OCLC
    32050803
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