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!-- Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words 1587431319 431319 HAUERWA Stanley Hauerwas -->Christ's final words from the cross - the seven sayings from the Gospels long pondered by Christians - are both familiar and strange. They are difficult words. As Stanley Hauerwas says, 'We are at once drawn to these words, yet we fear taking them in our hands.' P> Ideal for Lenten meditation and devotion - but powerful for reading and contemplating any time of the year - I>Cross-Shattered Christ/I> offers a transformative reading of Christ's words, a reading that goes directly to the heart of the gospel. It bids us 'come, draw near, fear not, and behold the mystery and the wonder of Jesus's cross.'
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