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Article: Between Cross and Resurrection: A Theology of Holy Saturday.
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- The Christian Century
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- March 13, 2002
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By Alan E. Lewis. Eerdmans, 477 pp., $30.00.
DID GOD DIE on a hill outside Jerusalem? Was it not only Jesus of Nazareth but somehow God himself who was hung on the cross and laid in the tomb? Christian theology has answered yes to these questions, and then struggled to articulate what this strange claim means.
Alan E. Lewis takes up the task by meditating on a day of the church year that often goes unmarked--Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter. On the boundary between cross and resurrection, Lewis contends, Christians can best contemplate the decisive events of the Christian story. On Holy Saturday, Christians look forward to ...