This morning the thought struck me afresh that Holy Saturday is the Sabbath; Christ’s day in the tomb was the day of rest.
The thought took me back to the late Alan Lewis’ wonderful book, Between Cross & Resurrection: A Theology of Holy Saturday. I pulled it off my shelf and flipped through it again . . . some books are just made to be revisited, and this is such a book.
As the title suggests, this book seeks to unpack the relevance of time “between cross and resurrection” for Christian theology and life. The book is narrative theology at its best, situating trinitarian thought in a narrative context of the three acts of the divine-human drama: crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
Our lives are lived in the liminality or Holy Saturday: on the “boundary between yesterday and tomorrow.”
What (if any) might the theological and practical import be for of Jesus being in the tomb on the day of rest?
Peace, dwight
a great book indeed! not only is it great narrative theology, it is incredibly personal theology as Lewis allows his struggle with Saturday in the text to intersect his struggle with the last saturday of his life, cancer..
he is risen!
mark
thanks Dwight I just ordered that thanks for the heads up