Creation and the Cross, Elizabeth A. Johnson
Creation and the Cross, Elizabeth A. Johnson
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Creation and the Cross
The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril

Author: Elizabeth A. Johnson

Narrator: Rosemary Benson

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/28/2020

Synopsis

In this fresh creative approach to theology, Elizabeth Johnson asks how we can understand cosmic redemption in a time of advancing ecological devastation. In effect, how can we extend the core Christian belief in salvation to include all created beings? Immediately this question runs into a formidable obstacle: the idea that Jesus's death on the cross was required as atonement for human sin—a theology laid out by the eleventh-century theologian St. Anselm.

Constructing her argument (like Anselm) in the form of a dialogue, Johnson lays out the foundations in scripture, the teachings of Jesus, and the early Church for an understanding that emphasizes the love and mercy of God, showing how this approach can help us respond to a planet in peril.

About Elizabeth A. Johnson

Elizabeth A. Johnson, a member of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, is distinguished professor of theology at Fordham University. A former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, she is the author of many books, including She Who Is (winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion), Quest for the Living God, Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love, Abounding in Kindness: Writings for the People of God, and editor of The Strength of Her Witness: Jesus Christ in the Global Voices of Women.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on April 09, 2018

This new Elizabeth A. Johnson book, Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril, speaks to a new generation which is troubled by the Church's thousand years of emphasis on Anselm's theology of atonement; the wrath and anger of God's honor which required that God's Son must die a b......more

Goodreads review by George on December 16, 2020

A significant argument in Christian theology that seeks to expand the meaning of Christ’s suffering to include the suffering of nature. Very accessible.......more

Goodreads review by Alan on August 15, 2022

Elizabeth Johnson has become one of my favourite theologians, Her thinking and her language is clear enough for a not so smart theological thinker like me to understand. This book provides an excellent critique of Anselm's Substitutionary Atonement Theory. she also helps me find the place of the cro......more

Goodreads review by DM on May 14, 2022

I was most interested in this book for Johnson's critique of Anselm's satisfaction soteriology, which I have not agreed with for some time. The outworking of her theology of merciful accompaniment has wide-reaching implications that work to expand our understanding of God's gracious and all-encompas......more

Goodreads review by Kristina on December 28, 2024

Read as the pre-work for Dr. Norman Wirzba's PARISH 806 Caring for Creation class at Duke Divinity School. Johnson spends an inordinate amount of time breaking down the difficulties and irrelevance of Anselm's satisfaction theory of atonement (and thus, its popular salvation framework grandchild: pen......more

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