Between Cross and Resurrection: A Theology of Holy Saturday

by Alan E. Lewis

Book Overview

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 Resurrectionshows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802826784
• ISBN13: 9780802826787
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

'few if any equals'

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).

The Power of Weakness

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