Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today
"Anyone looking for a definitive, secure answer to the old questions surrounding our experience of suffering should not consider reading this book. Anyone looking for an exploration of the question that is at once personal and scholarly will do well to read it."-Review for Religious"A valuable contribution to atonement theology . . . a model for doing theology in a new way, not working within any overarching paradigm, but calling on multiple voices and sources, personal and historical . . . a contribution to a newer cross-disciplinary approach to theologizing."-Anglican Theological Review"Crysdale has achieved a degree of integration in her approach to suffering: she uses both her right brain in fashioning images and her left brain in analyzing experience. Many will appreciate that balanced approach."-Theological Studies"[Crysdale] manages to fuse Evangelical and Catholic convictions in a way that ecumenically minded readers will find delightful. And she presents her ideas in a literary style that is lucid and graceful."-Theology Today"Certain strengths mark this book from beginning to end. It is admirably coherent….careful methodology makes the volume eminently clear….The prose style is graceful and fluid….Passionately vital."—Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology, February 2001"Cynthia Crysdale is an Episcopalian laywoman, currently associate professor in faith development and ethics at the Catholic University of America. She is one of the rising stars on our Anglican theological horizon, and this is her most important book to"In this strikingly personal yet deeply scholarly book, Cynthia Crysdale constructs an elegant understanding of redemption that answers feminist and liberationist concerns about 'the bad news of the cross.'" —Colleen Carpenter Cullinan, The Journal of Re"Accessible and engaging."—Heather A. Campbell, Toronto Journal of Theology, Fall 2001