Very insightful, with a meditative quality and tone appropriate to the subject of the book and to Lent. I highly recommend it, especially as a Lent/Holy Week devotional. Hauerwas approaches Christ with a reverence, fondness, and sense of otherness that illuminates the seven last words. Most provocatively, he gives a drastically different interpretation of some of the words than that which would seem most natural to us 20 centuries, half a world, and two languages removed. ( )

Focused on His seven final statements from the cross, Cross-Shattered Christ emphasized Jesus’ divinity on the cross. The mystery and power of grace are in perfect view upon the cross. Hauerwas’ devotional work is stirring, but sometimes difficult to follow. B+ ( )