The Crucified Jesus Is No Stranger explores the art of contemplating Jesus crucified which, as Moore acknowledges, is to come to understand, in painful situations, that the cross that I always first experience as “life’s crucifixion of me” is, in fact, my crucifixion of life—the Jesus-cross. Yet Jesus is also a transforming symbol.
Our own evil becomes explicit in Jesus. When that happens, explains Moore, “this symbol transforms evil into sin and sin into sorrow and forgiveness. And through this conversion, the believer finds as his or her own that identity which first he rejected and crucified.”
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Product details
ISBN
9780809154111
Published
2018-09-04
Edition
2. edition
Publisher
Paulist Press International,U.S.
Weight
172 gr
Height
203 mm
Width
137 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
168
Author
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