Into Your Hand
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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 preachers home congregation.As I read each powerful meditation and perfectly connected psalm, I experienced the healing power that contact with big truth will always give. This was not the sentimentalized Good Friday seven last words that I had grown up with, but a full body blow of contact with reality. Making use of the biblical scholarship and sharp insight that we have all come to expect from him, Walter Brueggemann then goes further. He reveals an amazing awareness of human suffering, family, relationships, despair, hard-won faith, and personal grief that the crucifixion accounts beautifully and subtly reveal.--from the foreword by Richard RohrWhat a gift that Walter Brueggemanns sermons on the seven last words are in print for others to read! His ability to connect Jesuss final words to the psalms and the emotional extremities of our lives made for a life-changing experience in our parishs Good Friday observance. We have returned to these sermons many times, opening our lives to the saving power of the crucified one.--Roger Green, St. Timothys Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, OHHere is Walter Brueggema
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