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Title: The World is Crucifixion
Author: Christopher D. Rodkey
Series: Intersections: Theology and the Church in a World Come of Age
soft cover
218 pp.
USD 24.00
ISBN 978-1934542545
Imprint: Noesis Press (The Davies Group, Publishers)
February 2016
With a foreword by Katharine Sarah Moody and an afterword by Carl Raschke, The World is Crucifixion is a collection of sermons,
written and preached from an American radical theology perspective, that demonstrate post-Christendom.
The sermons follow the liturgical and lectionary year C, so clergy may use the book for their own preaching and easily reference it in their professional work.
Laity will also findthe sermons a challenging alternative to read and live through the liturgica cycle.
From the text:
“There could be no more offensive faith to this world, or its Christian expressions, than an authentic and radical proclamation of the death of God, of radical
theology.”
“Radical preaching is an act of reversing the reversals, of exposing and illuminating the reversals which need to be reversed by telling stories, reciting songs
and poetry, interpreting sacred texts which aid and inspire the reversal of reversals. This act of reversing reversals is not always consistent, not always
intellectually clean, not always politically correct, and is never socially polite. Preaching calls forth and enacts these reversals, and hopes to inspire others to
similarly de-center, sublimate, kenote, Spin, reverse.”
“Why bother with Christianity? Imagine what this world would be like if we Christians who love to sing ‘Amazing Grace’ began to practice amazing grace. What
would this world become if Christians practiced Christianity?”
Contents
Foreword
by Katharine Sarah Moody
Introduction
Preaching Christ Crucified: Not Evading Nietzsche
The Seasons of Advent and Epiphany
1
Is There a God after 9/11? (Advent 1)
2
The Joy of Circumcision (Advent 2)
3
John the Baptist’s Dirty Joke (Advent 3)
4
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (Advent 4)
5
Palm Sunday in December (The Nativity & Christmas Eve)
6
Come, Lord Jesus (Feast Day of St. John)
7
Crib Notes from Bethlehem (Holy Name of Jesus)
8
Coyote Gospel (Baptism of the Lord)
9
When Atheists Come for Pizza (Epiphany 5)
The Seasons of Lent and Eastertide
10
Why I Should Be Pope (Lent 1)
11
Smelling Like Pig Slop and Loose Women (Lent 4)
12
The Resurrectionist (Lent 5)
13
How We Kill God (Lent 5, RCL)
14
The World is Crucifixion (Lent 6)
15
Some Gods Must Die (Easter Vigil)
16
I Believe in the Insurrection! (Easter)
17
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Rigor Mortis (Easter 6)
Pentecost and the Season after Pentecost
18
A History of Missing the Big Point: Is 160 Years Enough? (Pentecost)
19
Blessed Necromancy (Proper 5)
20
The Courage to Blaspheme (Proper 10)
21
Boldly Prepared for 1950? (Proper 15)
22
Why You Should Work on the Sabbath (Proper 16)
23
Huge Rummage Sale! (Proper 18)
24
Lessons from the Grocery Store (Proper 20)
25
You Can Take It with You! (Proper 21)
26
Judas Priest! (Reign of Christ)
27
How Christian is Thanksgiving? (Thanksgiving Day)
Afterword
by Carl Raschke
About the Authors
Notes
Author
Christopher D. Rodkey is Pastor of St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, Dallastown, PA, and teaches at Penn State York and York College of Pennsylvania. He is a
graduate of the University of Chicago (M.Div.) and Drew University (Ph.D.). His other books include The Synaptic Gospel and Too Good to be True. He is Series Editor
for Intersections, a new series published by Noesis Press, an imprint of The Davies Group, Publishers