Observing the Crucified

‘If the cross, prior to Paul, was the question to be answered by the resurrection, with Paul the observation was reversed: the risen Christ was identifiable with Jesus of Nazareth only as the crucified’. – Roy A. Harrisville, Fracture: The Cross as Irreconcilable in the Language and Thought of the Biblical Writers (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), 102.

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