No Godforsaken Place

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Prison Chaplaincy, Karl Barth, and Practicing Life in Prison

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Sarah C. Jobe, USA) Jobe, Reverend Dr Sarah C. (Divinity School, Duke University, Sarah C Jobe, Todd D. Whitmore, Todd D Whitmore, Aana Marie Vigen, Traci C West, Annemarie Mingo

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How does the life, arrest, trial, conviction, execution, and release from state-supervision of Jesus Christ enact the salvation of the cosmos? How does that one carceral life-in-death link up with life in the face of prison death today?Jobe explores the spiritual and religious life contained within America’s prison systems as it shows up in the profession of prison chaplaincy. The theological foundations of the text coherently link Barth’s experience of prison chaplaincy and his Christological theology with the theological understandings in the chaplains' interviews; and Jobe’s “practical soteriology” emerges in a thoroughly intricate and compelling contextualized vision. This book weaves careful ethnographic work, the systematic theology of Karl Barth, and biblical interpretation to craft a textured exploration of life-after-death work.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-13
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt350 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieT&T Clark Studies in Social Ethics, Ethnography and Theologies
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567719492

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PrefaceAcknowledgements Prelude Inhabiting Salvation: Living and Dying with Jesus in Prison Chapter 1Into the Witness Box: Methods and Motivation for WritingChapter 2The Crisis of Presence: Incarnating God in PrisonChapter 3Risking Atonement: Reconciling Race, Rank, and ReligionChapter 4Counting the Cost: Being Made Sin for the Sake of SalvationInterlude The Crucifixion and 58 Other Carceral DeathsChapter 5Recollecting Death. Dying with Jesus in PrisonChapter 6Inhabiting the Resurrection: The Work of Life After Death Postlude A Practical Soteriology: Penal Atonement in Prison BibliographyIndex

The God we know in Jesus is peculiar in the ways he identifies with prisoners—not only promising to be present to those who visit the incarcerated, but also facing charges, a trial, and execution at the hands of the state himself. No Godforsaken Place is an invitation to know God better by drawing near to those who experience incarceration. Jobe has not simply written a book about prison chaplaincy; she has given us a revelation of how the experience of entering prison can help you know the Creator of all things, seen and unseen.