Seven Last Words: Cross and Creation - Couverture souple

McGowan, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1725298260 ISBN 13 : 9781725298262

Editeur : Cascade Books, 2021

Synopsis

The cross is regarded as Jesus Christ’s great work of salvation. But is it also a work of creation? Excitingly plumbing Scripture and Christian tradition, Andrew McGowan shows that it is. “Each of Jesus’s seven words from the cross can be understood as a creative act, as a new divine work,” he writes. From the cross, Jesus works forgiveness, bestows Paradise, enacts human relationship, identifies completely with humanity, fulfills Scripture, and reenacts Sabbath. From early days, Christians—for good reason—linked the original seven days of creation with creation and re-creation at the apex of salvation. Seven Last Words recovers this linkage in all its power and perennial freshness.
But that is not all. In addition to surveying the seven last words Jesus spoke, McGowan insists that at the cross “the eternal Word not only speaks, but listens.” And so he turns to the “conversations” spoken not only from but to the cross. Here he opens new vistas on the words of Judas, Dismas (the criminal crucified beside Jesus), Mary, God the Father, Longinus (the centurion), and Nicodemus, and ruminates fascinatingly on the accompanying silence of the angels.
Profound and endlessly edifying, Seven Last Words will richly repay reading and rereading.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Andrew McGowan was Warden and Joan Munro Professor of Theology at Trinity College, Melbourne, during the time these essays were written, serving also on the Doctrine Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia and as a Canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. Since 2014, he has been Dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and McFaddin Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of books including Ascetic Eucharists (1999) and Ancient Christian Worship (2014); and is the editor of the Journal of Anglican Studies.

Philadelphia artist and spiritual director Bettina Clowney (1946-2020) graduated from Temple University's Tyler School of Art and studied with iconographer Vladislav Andreyev, and at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Direction. Her work illustrating this book includes the iconic cross at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Harleysville, Pennsylvania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cascade Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1725298260
• ISBN 13: 9781725298262
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Clowney Bettina
• Nombre de pages: 94
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• Personne responsable: non disponible