"Theology of the Cross" is an important site of religious reflectionand controversy, especially today. Westhelle repeatedly uncoversthe evasions - personal, social, religious, and even theological - bywhich we skirt the sharp challenge that the Cross and sufferinglove pose to a culture, lifestyle, and economy that avoid sufferingand evade love. And he challenges every Christian to embraceJesus' cross to find our own resurrection.