2/21/16
Chris Breslin
Mark 10:32-52
Lightenings (xii)
Seamus Heaney
And lightening? One meaning of that
Beyond the usual sense of alleviation,
Illumination, and so on, is this:
A phenomenal instant when the spirit flares
With pure exhilaration before death—
The good thief in us harking to the promise!
So paint him on Christ’s right hand, on a promontory
Scanning empty space, so body-racked he seems
Untranslatable into the bliss
Ached for at the moon-rim of his forehead,
By nail-craters on the dark side of his brain:
This day thou shall be with Me in Paradise.
“It is in our lastness, lostness, leastness, littleness, and death…that we are saved.” –Robert Farrar Capon
“The Son of Man in Daniel 7 represents God’s people as they are suffering at the hands of pagan enemies. He will eventually be vindicated, after his suffering, as God sets up the kingdom at last. Jesus is both warning his followers that this is how he understands his vocation and destiny as Israel’s representative and that they must be prepared to follow in his steps.” –N.T. Wright
Further Mark Reading
The Gospel According to St. Mark by Morna Hooker
King’s Cross/Jesus the King by Tim Keller
Mark (NICNT Commentary) William Lane
Mark (Anchor Bible Commentary) by Joel Marcus
Binding the Strong Man by Ched Meyers
Mark (Belief Commentary) by William Placher
Mark as Story by David Rhoads & Joanna Dewey
Meeting God in Mark by Rowan Williams
How God Became King by N.T. Wright
Mark for Everyone by N.T. Wright
Further Lenten Reading
God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Reader ed Chris Breslin
The Death of the Messiah by Raymond Brown
I Am With You (Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2016 Lent Book) by Kathryn Greene-McCreight
Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross
Cross-Shattered Christ by Stanley Hauerwas
He Became Like Us: Christ’s Identification with Man by Carlyle Marney
Death on a Friday Afternoon by Richard John Neuhaus
God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent & Easter ed Greg Pennoyer
The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross by Arthur Pink
Abiding (Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2013 Lent Book) by Ben Quash
The Seven Last Words from the Cross by Fleming Rutledge
Listening at Golgotha: Jesus’ Words from the Cross by Peter Storey
Looking Through the Cross (Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2014 Lent Book) by Graham Tomlin
In God’s Hands (Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2015 Lent Book) by Desmond Tutu
Passion and Power (Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2007 Lent Book) by Sam Wells
Thank God it’s Friday by Will Willimon
