In this remarkable application of a theology of the cross to pastoral care, Sharon Thornton shows that while suffering may seem to be our birthright, not all suffering is inevitable. The wounds society collectively inflicts on people over time, both intentional and through indifference to one another, challenge us the most and have been addressed the least by pastoral theologians-injuries such as interracial animosity, gender discrimination, and class divide, as well as injuries resulting from wars and genocide. This book is about suffering, but it is also about hope, and one of the theological places for discovering authentic hope is the cross. The cross names suffering for what it is, and it can be a means for radically critiquing all attempts to camouflage, minimize, or distort the truth of its reality. Thornton proposes that Christian community and pastoral care must start with the lives of real people where they are hurting. Only when pastors take this suffering seriously and face what is really wrong can there be hope to make things better.
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"The personal is political," Thornton tells readers, arguing that human suffering doesn't randomly happen, but is embedded in a host of political and social structures that oppress certain groups of people more than others. In this book, she unpacks some of those structures, her writing informed by liberation theology and social theory. A "pastoral theology of the cross," she contends, offers hope because Jesus' suffering addresses "the eclipse of the holy" and "the loss of hope" that many individuals feel. This well-written but highly specialized book will appeal primarily to pastors and counselors who share Thornton's views about injustice and are undaunted by her frequent citations of theorists such as Antonio Gramsci and Dorothee Soelle.
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