Between Cross and Resurrection

by Lewis, Alan E.

• ISBN13: 9780802826787
• ISBN10: 0802826784
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Now in paperback! Completely just before his own death from cancer, Between Cross and Resurrection is Alan E. Lewis's magnum opus. 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 place from which to reflect on the meaning of Christ's 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. The first comprehensive theology of Holy Saturday ever written, Between Cross and Resurrection shows that at the center of the biblical story and the church's creed lies a three-day narrative. Lewis explores the meaning of Holy Saturday -- the restless day of burial and waiting -- from the perspectives of narrative (hearing the story), doctrine (thinking the story), and ethics (living the story). Along the way he visits as many spiritual themes as possible in order to demonstrate the range of topics that take on fresh meaning when viewed from the vantage point of Holy Saturday. B

Author Biography

Alan E. Lewis (1944-1994) was professor of constructive and modern theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin, Texas. While writing this book he experienced his own Holy Saturday in suffering from and finally succumbing to cancer

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue	p. 1
Hearing the Story
The Easter Saturday Story	p. 9
On the Boundary between Yesterday and Tomorrow	p. 43
God in the Grave?	p. 69
The Word Incarnate and Interred	p. 103
Thinking the Story
God's Union with the Buried One: Doctrine Safeguards Story	p. 133
God's Election of the Grave: Story in Reform of Doctrine	p. 163
From God's Passion to God's Death	p. 197
Living the Story
Living the Story in World History	p. 261
Living the Story in Contemporary Society	p. 331
Living the Story in Personal Life	p. 403
Epilogue	p. 463
Index	p. 467
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