{"product_id":"knowing-christ-crucified-m-shawn-copeland-9781626982987","title":"Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancis 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKnowing Christ Crucified \u003c\/em\u003eis 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 up to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeginning with the \"dark wisdom of the slaves,\" Shawn Copeland shows how enslaved people found in the story of Jesus both an affirmation of their humanity and a repudiation of a system that held them in bondage. She goes on to ex-plore some of the challenges to human living in a world shaped and directed by white supremacy. And finally, she presses the meaning of solidarity in the concrete circumstances of American life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese challenging essays reflect her efforts to read the book of the cross, and to grapple with what it might mean \"to take up the cross daily and follow Jesus\" with those crucified in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e M. Shawn Copleand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1626982988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781626982987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Orbis Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.60d","brand":"M. Shawn Copleand","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053569732863,"sku":"9781626982987","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_529f127b-a3ea-474f-9da7-14c806409f72.jpg?v=1685025056","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/knowing-christ-crucified-m-shawn-copeland-9781626982987","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}