This chapter explores the cross as a comic-ironic event, in which renewed relationality with God begins in the disruption of presumptive certainties about God. In a similar way, Eagleton understands the cross as a sign of radical inversion—God’s self-estrangement from God’s self—that scuttles any assurance in cultural, political and religious projects. Several theologians such as Jürgen Moltmann and Karl Rahner are introduced whose work also perceives the suffering of God in Christ as a challenge to metaphysical assumptions and ideologies. This view nevertheless sustains an affirmative witness: loss of divinity is the possibility for the dramatic and substantial unfolding of God’s character within history. Eagleton’s view of the cross is given further definition through a discussion of ‘gratuitousness.’ Left undefined, gratuitous excess can become meaningless or destructive. Where Eagleton anticipates human flourishing as jouissance, narration of Jesus’ crucifixion within biblical witness and within the experiences of Christian faith, is marked with humility and receptivity to others. These qualities can shift our engagement with contradictions that shape human experience and generate openings for renewal and growth within philosophical and cultural approaches to irony.