TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hengel, Martin
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TI  - Crucifixion
SN  - 080061268X
U1  - 364.6 
CY  - Philadelphia, U.S.A
KW  - Crucifixion
N2  - 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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