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Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross is unavailable, but you can change that!

Most studies of Paul concentrate solely on his theology. This book breaks new ground by focusing on the source and nature of Paul’s spirituality. Taking his cue from Paul’s express desire to “know nothing but Christ crucified,” Michael Gorman shows how Paul’s personal experience of God constantly intersects with the story of the cross, an event that both reveals the cruciform character of God and...

that he not only changed from being a persecutor of Christ to being a preacher of Christ, but also forswore all vengeance and violence against enemies (Rom. 12:14–21). Moreover, his zeal to kill, metaphorically and perhaps literally, became a zeal to die, again metaphorically and perhaps literally. Without either psychologizing or oversimplifying, we may safely conclude that something like a life of “cruciformity”—of embracing a daily death (1 Cor. 15:31)—was an inherent and inevitable dimension
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