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Throughout Christianity's two-thousand-year history, the cross has been an anchor of its symbol system and, in its brutal violence, an inevitable stumbling block. In The Cross in Christian Tradition, distinguished scholars delve into the theologies and spiritualities of the cross found in biblical texts and commentaries, lectionaries, liturgical poetry, sermons, theological and spiritual treatises, spanning from Paul, the early liturgy, Origen, and Augustine through Bonaventure.
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