The Wood Between the Worlds
IVP, 2024
By Brian Zahnd
WHO: Brian Zahnd, founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri.
HE SAYS: “I want to muse on the deep mystery of the cross.”
THE BIG IDEA: There is an infinite number of ways to behold the cross as the beautiful form that saves the world, as the wood between the worlds.
THE PROGRESSION: In 19 chapters, the author presents a poetic theology of the cross. In the ongoing quest to make meaning of the cross, he shows that it is wrong to think we can sum up the significance of the crucifixion in one or two sentences. Instead, it is a conversation that won’t end.
“Rather than searching for a final word, I seek an eternal recurrence of holy awe.”
