crucicentric

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1. Focused on Jesus' death on the cross and resurrection as the core concept.

   The love of God is crucicentric. The cross reveals the nature, extent and purpose of divine love as it encounters human sin.

   1991, James M. Gordon, Evangelical Spirituality, SPCK, →ISBN, page 26

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   The Puritans of the seventeenth century had been conversionist, crucicentric, and biblicist, but rarely had they devoted themselves to spreading the gospel where it was not yet known.

   1993, David Bebbington, “Revival and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England”, in Edith L. Blumhofer, Randall Balmer, editors, Modern Christian Revivals, Urbana, Ill.; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 21

   As with all evangelicals, Sumner’s preaching was crucicentric. Like Simeon he proclaimed the message of Christ and him crucified.

   1995, Nigel Scotland, “Claphamite Pastor and Prelate”, in John Bird Sumner: Evangelical Archbishop, Gracewing, →ISBN, pages 103–104