Stott's best-known work, Basic Christianity, has sold two million copies and has been translated into more than 60 languages. His many books have sold millions of copies around the world and in dozens of languages. A leader among evangelicals in Britain, the United States and around the world, Stott was a principal framer of the landmark Lausanne Covenant (1974). For many years he served as rector of All Souls Church in London, where he carried out an effective urban pastoral ministry. Stott (1921-2011) has been known worldwide as a preacher, evangelist and communicator of Scripture. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

His penetrating insight, charitable scholarship and pastoral warmth are guaranteed to feed both heart and mind. Destined to be a classic study of the center of our faith, Stott's work is the product of a uniquely gifted pastor, scholar and Christian statesman. What emerges is a pattern for Christian life and worship, hope and mission. More than a study of the atonement, this book brings Scripture into living dialogue with Christian theology and the twentieth century. At the cross Stott finds the majesty and love of God disclosed, the sin and bondage of the world exposed. Can we see triumph in tragedy, victory in shame? Why should an object of Roman distaste and Jewish disgust be the emblem of our worship and the axiom of our faith? And what does it mean for us today? Now from one of the foremost preachers and Christian leaders of our day comes theology at its readable best, a contemporary restatement of the meaning of the cross. In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?' With compelling honesty John Stott confronts this generation with the centrality of the cross in God's redemption of the world - a world now haunted by the memories of Auschwitz, the pain of oppression and the specter of nuclear war.

'I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. The work of a lifetime, from one of the world's most influential thinkers, about the heart of the Christian faith.

The Cross of Christ by John R.W. Stott