Into your hand
Subtitle: confronting Good Friday
By: Walter Brueggemann ; foreword by Richard Rohr
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781498206471
Subjects: Sermons; Seven last words of Jesus Christ; Good Friday sermons; Seven last words
Description: 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. These sermons were preached last Good Friday in the preacher's home congregation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-39) and index.

Includes "Recent works by Walter Brueggeman": p. 41-42.
Table of contents: title: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34; Psalm 103); title: Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43; Psalm 27); title: Woman, here is your son; here is your mother (John 19:26-27; Psalm 127); title: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34; Psalm 22); title: I thirst (John 19:28; Psalm 42); title: It is finished! (John 19:30; Psalm 93); title: Father, into your hand I commend my spirit (Luke 23:46; Psalm 31).