Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year B, Volume 2
Overview
With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox Press offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. The twelve volumes of this series cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints’ Day. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays—one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. This gives preachers sixteen different approaches to the proclamation of the Word on any given occasion. The editors and contributors to this series are world-class scholars, pastors, and writers representing a variety of denominations and traditions. And while the twelve volumes of the series will follow the pattern of the Revised Common Lectionary, each volume will contain an index of biblical passages so that non-lectionary preachers, as well as teachers and students, may make use of its contents.
Top Highlights
“What does this tell us about faith? When God comes, we will recognize God’s presence in those moments when peace is offered, in those moments when life’s most brutal violence is honestly acknowledged, and when, in the midst of this bracing honesty, we realize that we are not alone but have, in fact, been always, already found.” (Page 404)
“The story of the cleansing of the temple as he tells it points toward the replacement of the temple with the temple of Jesus’ body, a narrative foreshadowing of Christ’s death and resurrection, and its embodiment in the celebration of the Eucharist.” (Page 96)
“The placement of the temple cleansing narrative directly after the first of Jesus’ signs deepens the revelation of Jesus’ identity. His action is in the tradition of Israel’s prophets who cried out in protest against profaning of the temple, against debasing the worship of the Lord, against substituting ritual for devotion. The Synoptic Gospels make this prophetic action explicit as Jesus identifies his action with Isaiah (56:7) and Jeremiah (7:11).” (Pages 92–94)
“Instead, Jesus taught and commissioned: his whole life, death, and rising were about what God is doing in the world—reconciling the world to God’s self. From the law of Moses to the prophets to the Psalms, it has always been about God and God’s purposes, aims, and agenda for creation—repentance that leads to forgiveness of sins and the wholeness of creation.” (Page 427)
“The Gospel writers tell us he chose to ride into the city on a colt or an ass—the animal princes rode when they wished to signify peaceful intentions. Jesus, then, is depicted as coming in peace—not coming to conquer but to teach the ways of peace; not coming to resist forces of his own destruction, but allowing them to gather their strength against him.” (Page 156)
- Title: Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year B, Volume 2
- Authors: David L. Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor
- Series: Feasting on the Word
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Common lectionary (1992); Lectionary preaching
- Resource ID: LLS:FEASTWORDB02
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T08:21:38Z