The Executed God
Subtitle: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780800632830
Subjects: Christianity; Prisons; Social issues; Religion; Criminology; Church And Social Problems; Prison Systems; Religious aspects; Religion - Socialissues; Punishment; USA; Imprisonment; Christian Theology - Protestant; Criminal Procedure; Penology; Christianity - General; Capital punishment
First sentence: In my own church in Trenton, New Jersey, Tamika rises, with all of her thirteen years of age, to share a concern before the adults go their "Prayers of the People" during Sunday morning worship.
Description: "In The Executed God, theologian Mark Taylor dares to address the meaning of Jesus' execution for an American culture that now maintains more than 3,600 U.S. residents on the death rows of its burgeoning prisons.".

"Taylor shows that the death penalty is only one aspect of "lockdown America," and The Executed God suggests how Christians can resist and transform this whole system, which incarcerates two million people (70 percent of them people of color) and commits frequent violations of fairness in process and results.".

"In creative and fresh ways, Taylor mines Christian traditions for a new understanding of "the way of the cross" today. His work fosters compassionate and effective Christian action and convincingly relates the life-engendering power of God - demonstrated in Jesus' cross and resurrection - to the potential transformation of systems of imprisonment and death."--BOOK JACKET.