As a form of wisdom, it deals with (among other things) the politics of how power is gained and used among God’s people and in the world, and it exercises a deliberate, purposeful rhetoric directed toward the persuasion of others. But its politics and its rhetoric is not an uncritical mimicry of the politics and rhetoric of the world; instead, it is a politics and a rhetoric shaped by the message of the cross, seeking with humility and integrity to unite God’s people in the mind of Christ and apply