Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience

by M Shawn Copeland and M. Shawn Copeland

Book Overview

Francis of Assisi is reported to have said that the cross is a book. When we open that book in love and in intelligence, we encounter traces of the crucified Jewish Jesus in human social suffering in our world."

Knowing Christ Crucified is a powerful reading of the Cross of Jesus, both as it is written in scripture and in the experi-ence of the poor and oppressed--particularly in the history of black people in America, from the time of slavery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626982988
• ISBN13: 9781626982987
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"