For much of Christian history the church has given no place to Holy Saturday in its liturgy or worship. Yet the space dividing Calvary and the Garden may be the best from which to reflect on the meaning of Christs death and resurrection. This superb work by the late Alan Lewis develops on a grand scale and in great detail a theology of Holy Saturday.
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After Good Friday but before Easter Sunday, there's Holy Saturday, a Sabbath time of mournful waiting. Although this holy day is not highly ritualized in Christian tradition, theologian Alan Lewis argues in Between Cross and Resurrection: A Theology of Holy Saturday that all three days from Jesus' crucifixion to his resurrection are meant to be understood as a coherent narrative. This is an original interpretation of a relatively unmined topic, a rare achievement in Christian theology.
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The Power of Weakness,
By Benedictine Convent "Sr. Lenora Black, OSB" (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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In this major work of narrative theology, Alan Lewis breaks new ground with his moving and comprehensive exposition of the neglected but vital place of Holy Saturday in the Paschal mystery. Writing passionately but with precision, during his own Holy Saturday experience of temporary remission from terminal cancer, he offers compelling insights into "God's powerful weakness." Prayer, for him, is the "posture of those who foreswear the idolatry of self-reliance and affirm rather the perfection, primacy and power of God." It is only because of God's self-surrender to death, "that those and only those who lose and give themselves away shall find and fulfill themselves." Lewis calls us to a Christocentric catholicity that defies the individualism, nationalism, and group conflicts nurtured by a "secular pluralism." When "power is the expression, not the opposite, of service," the Easter Saturday community will be characterized by "audacious speech as well as suffering silence." Not a book for the faint-hearted, this book, prayerfully pondered, will leave no reader's life unchanged. Lenora Black, OSB
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I learned more theology from one course under Dr. Alan Lewis than from over 40 years of church sermons. He taught, as he wrote, from his personal knowledge and understanding of Christianity during the months he was living with painful, incurable cancer. As more fully explained in the last chapter of this book, healing is a gift from God. No one person is more deserving of it than another. Diseases are not God's punishments. They happen. I am renewing and reviewing my Christian beliefs during my personal struggles with my dad's end-stage Parkinson's disease and my young cousin's ovarian cancer. I hope that amazon.com promotes this book because it deserves reading by all thoughtful Christians.
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with my title i am echoing one of the blurbs on the back of the book--one of the many blurbs and comments you will find on this book, all of high praise and some weight. Suprisingly, the book is 'all that'. It may well be the most profound and moving theology book i have ever read (and expect to).
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