'The passion narrative is not simply a playing out of a script that begins with the cathechism statement that "Jesus died for our sins." His dying is not just a necessary preliminary to the good news of the resurrection. The cross is not just what happened to him - it is who he is. "We preach Christ crucified," Paul declares. The God whom we worship is a crucified God.'
Richard John Neuhaus, Death on a Friday Afternoon, p.117.
