Crucifixion In the ancient world and the folly of the message of the cross Martin Hengel

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TextLanguage: 0 eng Publication details: Philadelphia, U.S.A; Fortress; 1977Description: 99tr; paperbackISBN:

080061268X

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Crucifixion

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364.6
M379-H51

Summary: In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which `the most vile death of the cross` was regarded in the Greek-speaking world and particularly in Roman-occupied Palestine. His conclusions bring our more starkly than ever the offensiveness of the Christian message: Jesus not only died an unspeakably cruel death, he underwent the most contemptible abasement that could be imagined. So repugnant was the gruesome reality, that a natural tendency prevails to blunt, remove, to domesticate its scandalous impact. yet any discussion of a `theology of the cross` must be preceded by adequate comprehension of both the nature and extent of this scandal.

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In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which `the most vile death of the cross` was regarded in the Greek-speaking world and particularly in Roman-occupied Palestine. His conclusions bring our more starkly than ever the offensiveness of the Christian message: Jesus not only died an unspeakably cruel death, he underwent the most contemptible abasement that could be imagined. So repugnant was the gruesome reality, that a natural tendency prevails to blunt, remove, to domesticate its scandalous impact. yet any discussion of a `theology of the cross` must be preceded by adequate comprehension of both the nature and extent of this scandal.

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