Systematic Theology

The Image of God, The Doctrines of the Church and The Spiritual War Against The Death Penalty

De: Jeff Hood

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This is a book born in the spaces most of us try not to see...prison yards, death rows, the narrow hallways outside execution chambers and the living rooms of families who will never stop crying. I’ve held the hands of men moments before the state killed them. I’ve sat with wardens, families of victims and grieving mothers...carrying the weight of a system that thinks it has the authority to end life in God’s name. And I’ve realized that when the state kills, it is not only the condemned who die...it is the witness of the church, the imagination of mercy and the gospel itself.

Systematic Theology is not just a book about justice or policy. It is a theological reckoning. Doctrine by doctrine, chapter by chapter, it shows that the death penalty collapses under the weight of our faith. The Trinity, The Incarnation, The Cross, The Resurrection, The Spirit, The Church...every part of Christian belief...when properly understood...testifies that executions are impossible for those who follow Christ. This is theology lived in the trenches, theology that confronts the lies Christians have been told for centuries...that some lives are beyond redemption, some sins beyond forgiveness and some people beyond God’s saving reach.

At its core, this is a universalist theology. It insists that God’s love is without limit, without hesitation and without exception. If Christ’s mercy knows no end, then no condemned soul can be executed outside of it. Hood dismantles every theological justification for state killing...replacing it with a vision of faith rooted in radical mercy, reconciliation and life. This is not abstract argumentation...it is testimony, prayer and moral urgency woven into a systematic defense of the gospel.

This book is for theologians, clergy, activists and any Christian who refuses to stand silent while the state kills. It is a call to the church to wake up, to lay down its stones and to stand on the side of mercy. Systematic Theology is both a mirror and a summons...it shows the church who we are when we allow executions...and it challenges us to live into who God calls us to be...agents of life, witnesses of mercy and bearers of hope in a world that too often chooses death.