Review Panel of Sarah Jobe, No Godforsaken Place: Prison Chaplaincy, Karl Barth, and Practicing Life in Prison (T&T Clark, 2025)

This session is s review panel of Sarah C. Jobe's, No Godforsaken Place: Prison Chaplaincy, Karl Barth, and Practicing Life in Prison (T&T Clark, 2025).
How does the life, arrest, trial, conviction, execution, and release from state-supervision of Jesus Christ enact the salvation of the cosmos? How does that one carceral life-in-death link up with life in the face of prison death today?
In No Godforsaken Place, Sarah Jobe weaves careful ethnographic work, the systematic theology of Karl Barth, and biblical interpretation to craft a textured exploration of life-after-death work, i.e. salvation. Through interviews with prison chaplains across the United States, Jobeexplores the spiritual and religious life contained within America's prison systems through the professionof prison chaplaincy. The theological foundations of the text coherently link Karl Barth's experience of prison chaplaincy and his Christological theology with the theological understandings in the chaplains 'interviews; and Jobe's “practical soteriology” emerges in a thoroughly intricate and compelling contextualized vision.