profound intimacy; but it always was such because the distance was a work of trinitarian, loving obedience, and in this obedience Father and Son were always one in a reciprocal relationship in the Spirit. All the same, Good Friday is not just the same as Easter: the economic Trinity objectively acts out the drama of the world’s alienation. So we should not say that the Cross is nothing other than the (“quasi sacramental”) manifestation of God’s reconciliation with the world, a reconciliation that