self-sacrifice is, or what justice is, or whatever, and then force the cross to fit our understanding, we end up getting things the wrong way up; instead, we need to realise that we will understand these things only when we understand them through the cross. And so, if we are attempting to describe the cross and what Jesus was doing for us there, we need to grab hold of all these realities that are themselves defined by the cross, and tell stories about them. But we cannot tell just one story and