In Cross Words, Paul Wells observes why it was necessary for God in Jesus Christ to take on human nature, to redeem people from sin and from death by dying for them in the flesh. He looks at the situation existing between God and man that made the cross necessary, what the death of Christ entails, and the result of His work of the cross. Along the way, he evaluates the most significant denials of such crucial issues as the wrath of God, penal substitution, and propitiation.