an event of violence, the death of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified on a cross, that stands at the center of the Gospel stories about Christ. Second, divine violence cannot be treated in isolation from other language about God. If God is violent, God is also loving, benevolent, compassionate, all powerful, and wise. And for Christians the violence of the cross itself represents, preeminently, the revelation of the nonviolent love of God, God’s solidarity through Christ with us as victims of violence,