Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross (Biblia.com)

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When it was first published in 2001, Cruciformity broke new ground with a vision of Pauline spirituality that illuminated what it meant to be a person or community in Christ. Beginning with Paul’s express desire to “know nothing but Christ crucified,” Gorman showed how true spirituality is telling the story, in both life and words, of God’s self-revelation in Jesus, so that we might practice...

God” (Gal. 4:9a), or better, as “being known by God” (Gal. 4:9b; cf. 1 Cor. 13:12). This language also continues the biblical tradition that speaks of knowing God. For Paul this is clearly an intimate knowledge: his goal is one day to know “even as I have been fully known” (1 Cor. 13:12). Yet for Paul, God is known in Christ; “Christ is determined by God himself as the place where God can be known.”4 When Paul encountered Jesus, his Jewish experience of the faithful,

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