The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World
By Douglas John Hall
Augsburg Fortress. 2003. 2243 pp. Pb. $17.
— Review by Edwin W. Stock, Raleigh, N.C.
The author is a Canadian Lutheran scholar whose book was first delivered in 2002 as 10 lectures at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio. It is easy to read because it has an oral style. Yet, it is scholarly as it addresses Martin Luther's "thin tradition," a theology of the cross (theologia crucis) not well known or appreciated in Reformed Calvinistic branches, whose theology begins with the foundational pillar of the Sovereignty of God.