knowing others according to the way of the cross

"the new way of knowing is not in some ethereal sense a spiritual way of knowing. It is not effected in a mystic trance, as the pseudo-apostles claimed, but rather right in the midst of rough and tumble life...it is life in the midst of the new creation community, in which to know by the power if the cross is precisely to know and to serve the neighbor who is in need... Thus at the juncture of the ages the marks of the resurrection are hidden and revealed in the cross of the disciples daily death, and ONLY there"
JL Martyn 'epistemology at the turn of the ages'