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“This remarkable collection of essays is a tribute to an idea whose time has come.”
— Prof. Linda Woodhead, King's College London, UK
“a new conversation on the crucified Jesus—a political prisoner sentenced to death by the powers that be and subjected to sexual abuse....”
— Prof. Fernando F. Segovia, Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA
“The book focuses unflinchingly on a distressing detail present in the biblical text ... It calls this what it is: sexual abuse…”
— Prof. Johanna Stiebert, University of Leeds, UK
“an important group of scholars who have noticed something that we should all pay attention to.”
— Prof. John Swinton, University of Aberdeen, UK

About me

I am a lay Anglican theologian, originally from the United Kingdom. I serve as the Howard Paterson Chair Professor of Theology and Public Issues at the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand. I work on contextual approaches to public theology, including liberation theologies and theologies of reconciliation. I am probably best known for my research on crucifixion as a form of torture, an instrument of state terror, and an opportunity for punitive sexualised abuse. I also write on how churches can make better responses to sexual and spiritual abuses.