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...

It is not indeed as risen, exalted, living, divine, but as crucified, that this Jesus Christ is distinguished unmistakably from the many risen, exalted, living gods and deified founders of religion, from the Caesars, geniuses, and heroes of world history.1 It is well known that the idea of a crucified messiah, savior, or deity was ludicrous to Jews and non-Jews alike in antiquity. Paradoxically, however, the early Christians found in the crucified Jesus, now raised and exalted, both the “power of

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