
This post is a part of my ongoing (slow and steady) blog series on The Crucified God The Crucified God by Jürgen Moltmann (CG). You can view the other posts in this series here.
We live in a world that is in many ways fractured and divided, by such things as geography, politics, nationalism, race, and culture. But the division of all divisions is religion, whether we are talking about the divide between religions, the divides within a particular religion (such as the many denominations within Christianity), or (especially in our increasingly secular society) the divide between the religious and the irreligious. Christianity, like other religions in our world, creates and sustains distinctions between people; it does not remove them.
But with the cross of Christ as a our “foundation and criticism”, these distinctions – especially religious ones – are profoundly called into question:
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