Intimately Forsaken: A Trinitarian Christology of the Cross
The lament of Jesus from the cross, as documented in Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 (“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”), represents one of the most theologically challenging statements within the biblical text. In the aftermath of the two World Wars, pastoral and theological impulses to render God more immediately relatable produced doctrinally distorted interpretations of this cry, some positing an ontological rupture within the Triune God. In Intimately Forsaken, a revised version of his doctoral thesis, Thomas Brand offers an orthodox alternative by developing, as the subtitle indicates, a Trinitarian Christology of the cross. Employing the architectural...