of God, my claim is that we do, in fact, find him. Like a beautiful three-dimensional object rising out of a two-dimensional mundane pattern in a “Magic Eye” book, I believe the Cruciform Hermeneutic enables us to discern the beauty of the crucified God rising out of portraits of God that on the surface appear profoundly ugly. The crucified Christ, in short, gives us the “Magic Eye” to discern him in the depths of even the most horrifically violent portraits of God.