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A Theology of the Cross: The Death of Jesus in the Pauline Letters is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Paul’s epistles the crucifixion story reveals a God who is free and in no way bound by human categories or expectations. Yet God in Christ chooses to be engaged in the very depths of the human predicament. The message of the crucifixion is that God’s power is manifested in weakness, not in strength. The author believes that this “weakness as strength” should be the focal point of the church’s...

to a climax by stating that his preaching and ministry were such that “your faith might not rest in human wisdom but in the power of God” (2:5). The exegesis of 1 Cor. 1:18–2:5 yields a striking picture of God’s purposes in the story of the crucified Christ. We can summarize by listing seven dimensions of such a picture. 1. Throughout the section it has become clear that God stands as the hidden figure behind the vivid drama of the cross. As horrifying a means of death as it was, the crucifixion
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