Experimentum Crucis
Rowan Williams, "Christ on Trial, How the gospel unsettles our judgement"
Experimentum Crucis: The ways in which the cross tries and probes us.
The significance of reflecting on the passion and the gospel stories of the trial is that "the question we are left with as we read is about who we are. The various ways in which we can ask Jesus who he is, summed up in the variety of ways he is cross-examined by his judges, tell us where we are coming from, what it is in us that is afraid of the prisoner in the dock."
"God becomes recognisable as God only at the place of extremity, where no answers seem to be given and God cannot be seen as the God we expect or understand."
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