From the Cross to the Kingdom
Subtitle: Sartrean Dialectics and Liberation Theology
By: Roberta Imboden.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1987
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion.; Sartre, Jean Paul, 1905-; Christian sociology.; Holy Spirit.; Kingdom of God.; Liberation theology.
Description: In this, the first creative comparison of Jean-Paul Sartre’s ideas and New Testament concepts, Roberta Imboden rejuvenates Christian thoughts and action. She supplies key Sartrean concepts—the fused group, scarcity, and totalization—to major New Testament concepts—the Jesus-Apostle group, the Cross, the Holy Spirit, and the Kingdom of God. With clarity and conviction, she reveals how Sartre’s dialectical view of history illuminates the gospel events, rendering them important, inspirational paradigms for modern Christianity. 

“No attempts will be made to bend or twist Sartre’s ideas,” writes Imboden. “No attempt will be made to Christianize the ever militantly atheistic philosopher, or to imply that Sartre’s ideas are really only a secular version of older Christian concepts. The intention is that Sartre remain rigorously Sartre. . . . Nevertheless, the primary purpose is to reappraise some very ancient concepts of the New Testament so that these concepts can be understood in the most meaningful concrete way for those of us who live in the latter part of the twentieth century.”
Notes: Bibliography: p. [127]-130.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: ix; title: Preface
pagenum: xiii; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: xvii; label: 1.
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 2.
title: The Sartrean Dialectic
pagenum: 9; label: 3.
title: Jesus and the Apostles: A Fused Group
pagenum: 41; label: 4.
title: Scarcity: The Basic Structure of the Cross
pagenum: 65; label: 5.
title: A Concrete Application: The United States, the Scarcity Structure, and the Cross
pagenum: 85; label: 6.
title: Totalization: The Holy Spirit, the Kingdom of God
pagenum: 103; title: Notes
pagenum: 127