sometimes called it, deification, divinization, or theosis.4 It is conformity to Christ, or holiness, understood as participation in the very life of God—inhabiting the cruciform God. This conclusion is implicit in Cruciformity, but it is not fully developed there. This new book unpacks the claim that cruciformity is theoformity, or theosis. It unfolds in four closely connected chapters. Chapter one examines Phil 2:6–11, which may be called Paul’s master story, to show that Christ’s kenosis (self-emptying)