Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334054133
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Into Your Hands by : Walter Brueggemann
Download or read book Into Your Hands written by Walter Brueggemann and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of seven sermons follows the traditional church sequence of “The Seven Last Words of the Cross,” utterances that the gospel narratives place on the lips of Jesus. These utterances are drawn from the several gospel narratives. In the liturgical life of the church, however, the sequence has a significance and staying power of its own quite apart from the gospel narratives in which the utterances are embedded. These sermons take seriously the faith voiced by Jesus in his context of wretched abuse by the Roman Empire. They attempt, moreover, to connect that reality of faith and abuse in our contemporary world of concentrated, ruthless power. The intent of such sermons on Good Friday is to replicate for us in our context what such an interface of faith and abuse must have been like.