A Theology of the Cross or Why You Gotta Look Good on Wood
This is a scary picture! Not because Jesus is hanging on a cross; we’re used to that. What’s scary are the definitions of Jesus hanging on a cross as victorious, obedient, blessed, lifted up, glorified, and miraculous! And it’s not that all this is said of Jesus that scares us either. What scares us is that Jesus (and Paul) seem to expect we will live this way too. Nietzsche called this an anti-human slave morality. Screwtape claims it is only the underworld’ s “ceaseless labor” that has prevented this “theology of the cross” from taking root in the Church of England (C. S. Lewis’ church). Here’s his full account. “ We have quite removed from men's minds what that pestilent fellow Paul used to teach about food and other unessentials—namely, that the human ...