Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year C, Volume 4
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
“The theological issues here circle around soteriology and ecclesiology—who is in and who is out, who is lost and who is found, what does it mean to be saved by Christ, and what does it mean to be the community of Christ today?” (Page 68)
“The quest for certitude often becomes an excuse for not acting. This parable suggests that God will not, perhaps cannot, speak to us with a sign that escapes the need to be interpreted and believed. We are left with a call to act based not on an absolute certainty in the divine command, but on the visibility of the suffering face that becomes, for us, the face of Christ himself, shrouded in all the ambiguity of our finitude and fallenness.” (Page 120)
“Discipleship, we must remember, is a process. This takes time and involves both false starts and modest successes, as we grow in our faith journeys to live into the fullness of our humanity and dare to begin to live the holiness that resides in each of us. As disciples, we learn to face life’s challenges and joys with a spirit of love, hope, faith, and peace that leads us to an ever deeper spirituality and life of prophetic witness.” (Page 46)
“We might imagine ourselves as the shepherd looking for the sheep or as the woman looking for the coin. We might imagine that these parables encourage our searching, so that we might find what we have lost. The parables in fact do something else. They make us, the sinners, not the searchers but the lost object, lost not in the subjective sense of not knowing where we are (though that may be part of it), but in the objective sense of having become the object of another’s search. That is, we are lost to someone, who is, we are assured, seeking us.” (Pages 68–70)
- Title: Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year C, Volume 4
- Authors: David L. Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor
- Series: Feasting on the Word
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- 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:FEASTWORDC04
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T08:21:44Z