8 The Revelation of God
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The Revelation of God
The achievement of Christ’s cross must be seen in terms of revelation as well as salvation. To borrow some jargon, it was a ‘revelatory’ as well as a ‘salvific’ event. For through what God did there for the world he was also speaking to the world. Just as human beings disclose their character in their actions, so God has showed himself to us in the death of his Son. The purpose of this chapter is to investigate in what way the cross was a word as well as a work, and to listen attentively to it.