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...

may dwell in me.… 10[F]or whenever I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Cor. 12:5b, 9, 10b) Understanding Paul’s experience of the Spirit enables us to comprehend this paradox. The distinctive feature of Paul’s experience of the Spirit, and his resulting understanding of the essence of this Spirit, is the paradoxical symbiosis (union) of power and weakness, of power and cruciformity. The charismatic Spirit is also the cruciform Spirit. The presence and power of the

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