The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ

What is the living significance of the death of Jesus Christ? Noted pastor and preacher Fleming Rutledge counters contemporary tendency to either speak of the cross in the most general and bland terms or bypass Jesus' crucifixion entirely in The Crucifixion, an examination of the communal, corporate, and cosmic significance of the cross of Jesus Christ.

This series of theological reflections on the death of Jesus Christ throughout Scripture and tradition sketches out the horror of the cross with unflinching honesty and patient exposition, examining in depth all the various themes and motifs used by the New Testament evangelists and apostolic writers to explain the meaning of the cross of Christ. She mines the classical writings of the Church Fathers, the medieval scholastics, and the Reformers as well as more recent scholarship, while bringing them all into contemporary context.

Widely known for her preaching, Rutledge invites scholars and laity alike to grasp the incomparable riches of Christ crucified—the living reality that continues to transform human existence and destiny more than two thousand years later.