Cross and Resurrection: God's Wonder and Mystery

In Cross and Resurrection, Klaus Schwarzwaller uses art, history, contemporary culture, and especially scripture to present a trenchant analysis of the modes of power and production that have undergirded society since the Enlightenment, and the implications this has had for the Christian faith.
In a church that, like society, has become captive to the quest for truth in the measurable, reproducible, and rational, proof of the Spirit's power is dependent on the criteria of reason and theory, rather than on the Spirit's work in the reality of daily life. It follows, then, that the heart and soul of the Christian faith the cross and resurrection of Jesus are seen to be accessible only through expert interpretation. Thus, church and theology wind up existing for their own ends, and freedom and faith are replaced with brutal indifference and control.
But the character of Christian faith, indeed, all faith, is mystery and wonder "the mystery of the holy and wonder at those things not bound by our laws and possibilities."The cross excludes our control; the power of the resurrection ensures that the negativity of human life borne on the cross will be overcome.
Schwarzwaller calls the church and theologians to relinquish both their conformity to society and the indifference that power and production create and instead focus on tending to God's word so that the cross and resurrection, which are opened only to those who are open to them, are again revealed in the fullness of God's wonder and mystery.