Foreword

Foreword

This is a resurrection book. As Christians, we know that, through his death and resurrection, God in Christ has achieved everything necessary for our salvation. The New Testament piles up image after image to help us understand what has been done for us, but at the heart of each one is God’s complete victory over all the things that hold us captive or separate us from God and from each other. It may not seem obvious why God’s victory can only be won through Jesus’ willingness to undergo suffering and death, but Paul says, in Romans 8.38, that it is so that nothing can ‘separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus’. Christ Jesus has taken the faithful love of God into the darkest places of human experience, so that God’s life can be found even there...