'Surprisingly, the liturgical season of Advent, rather than Lent, best locates the Christian community. Advent - the time in between - with its themes of crisis and judgment, now and not-yet, places us not in some privileged spiritual sanctuary but on the frontier where the promised kingdom of God exerts maximum pressure on the present, with corresponding signs of suffering and struggle.'
Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, p.45.
