A British man who gained a reputation for
crucifying victims while fighting for IS has been captured by US - backed Syrian Kurdish fighters.
Even then,
the crucified victim rarely died from blood loss.
Rather, in the chaotic world of White Crucifixion all are unredeemed, caught in a vortex of destruction binding
crucified victim and modern martyr.
The averted sacrifice of Isaac; the prophets» condemnation of scapegoating the widow, the weak or the foreigner; the story of Job; the Psalms» obsession with the innocent victim of collective violence; the passion narratives» transparent account of Jesus» death; the confessions of a new community that grew up in solidarity around the risen
crucified victim: all these follow a constant thread.
Not exact matches
At a climactic point, after Uncle Tom experiences a vision of the
crucified Christ in preparation for his own martyrdom, the slave owner Legere begins to beat him and then suddenly realizes that «it was GOD who was standing between him and his
victim.»
War is a particular demonstration of the power of sin in the world and a defiance of the righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and him
crucified» Yet the conference accepted the idea that criteria exist by which some wars can be regarded as just: to defend international law, or to vindicate «an essential Christian principle» such as the defense of «
victims of wanton aggression.»
The bomb
victims are coming in and are having to get amputations with no anesthetics and some are even been
crucified as torture because they are Christians.
The
victims disappear, and we become guilty of the same crime as those who
crucified Jesus.
To believe in the
crucified one is to want no other
victims.
One of the crucial things that makes the church a new community is its solidarity not against some sacrificial
victim, but in identification with the
crucified one.