The Scandalous God Quotes

“... in the Greek wording of the Nicene Creed ... we confess God to be literally the "poet of heaven and earth" (poieten ouranou kai ges).”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross

“Jesus suffered because he named the cause of suffering, the law that kills”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross

“... the death of Jesus took place in a space where God was thought to be absent. It was a space in which God's revelation would not occur, a place that could not witness to divine glory; it was an anti-epiphanic space, for it was the place of the skull.”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross

“[The particularity of the cross] fragments our attempt to hold it as an integral whole, administer and control it at our whim. This is what scandal means; it disrupts an expected fulfillment and enclosure of meaning.”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross

“[The cross] is a way of life that we live out. It is a practice that involves risk. It is a story that, if truly told, courts danger but moves also into hopeful solidarity, the solidarity of those who are moved by the pain of God in the midst of this world, or by the pain of the world in the midst of God.”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross