Since this is the last in our mini-series on the cross, I might as well lay my cards on the table. This view is offered not as a final answer, but as an opportunity for further questions. Ultimately, I think the cross is just that – an opportunity for more questions. The theologian Schubert Ogden describes Christ as the decisive …
The Scandal of the Cross
It seems that the people of the Jesus Movement expected something else. Maybe a violent overthrow of their Roman oppressors. Maybe just a living wage and single-payer health care. A chicken in every pot. Maybe they just wanted someone, one of their own, to say that he understood and to speak for them and fight for them. But it didn’t …