"Theology of the Cross" is an important site of religious reflection and controversy, especially today. Westhelle repeatedly uncovers the evasions - personal, social, religious, and even theological - by which we skirt the sharp challenge that the Cross and suffering love pose to a culture, lifestyle, and economy that avoid suffering and evade love. And he challenges every Christian to embrace Jesus' cross to find our own resurrection.
Vitor Westhelle is Professor of Systematic Theology at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He was formerly on the faculty of Luther Theological Seminary in St Paul, Minnesota, USA and Escola Superior de Teologia in Brazil.