Hanging on and Rising Up: Renewing, Re-Envisioning, and Rebuilding the Cross from the "Marginalized" - Paperback

by Patricia Cuyatti Chávez (Author)

Hanging On and Rising Up invites readers to enter into key aspects of Christology, making use of women's perspectives from the Andean Peruvian contexts by using novels by Clorinda Matto de Turner and Jose Maria Arguedas. Studying the social, racial, and cultural experiences in challenging contexts, the book confirms the nearness of God in Jesus Christ, who makes hope possible as a sign of resurrection and encourages persons to celebrate it daily.

Author Biography

PATRICIA CUYATTI CHÁVEZ is a Pastor from the Lutheran Church of Peru and researcher in Systematic Theology. She is currently working as Area Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Geneva, Switzerland.