Engaging the Passion: Perspectives on the Death of Jesus
Overview
Engaging the Passion gathers a wide array of scholars to survey how the death of Jesus has been portrayed and represented in Scripture, liturgy and music, literature, art and film, and theology and ethics—from the first to the twenty-first centuries. Readers will get new insights into the death of Jesus from a variety of perspectives—Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and secular. Hear the richness of different voices, from the challenging to the comforting and from the academic to the confessional. These essays address the faithful, the skeptical, and the curious.
For more on the Passion, check out Classic Studies on the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ (19 vols.).
Key Features
- Offers unique perspectives on the Passion of Jesus
- Portrays the death of Jesus in many mediums, from art and music to images and texts
- Demonstrates the complexity and depth of the death of Jesus
Contents and Contributors
- The Texts
- “The Passion of Christ in the Letters of Paul” by Jouette Bassler
- “Synoptic Passions” by Oliver Larry Yarbrough
- “It Is Accomplished! The Passion in the Gospel of John” by David Rensberger
- Liturgy and Music
- “The Passion in Christian Liturgy” by Robert Atwell
- “Musical Settings of the Passion Texts” by Andrew Shenton
- Literature
- “The Passion in American Literature” by John McWilliams
- “Dostoevsky’s Fiery ‘Furnace of Doubt’” by Michael R. Katz
- “Frodo and the Passion in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings” by Matthew Dickerson
- Images
- “The Alexamenos Graffito: Street Art in Ancient Rome” by Oliver Larry Yarbrough
- “Engaging the Lothar Cross” by Eliza Garrison
- “Albrecht Dürer’s The Kiss of Judas or ‘der heyligen schryfft studiren’” by Christopher Kent Wilson
- “Titian’s Noli Me Tangere” by Katherine Smith Abbott and Elizabeth Oyler
- “Manet’s Dead Christ with Angels” by John Hunisak
- “Marc Chagall’s Jewish Jesus” by Margaret O’Brien Steinfels
- “Can You Feel Me? The Passion in the Public Art Ministries of Damon Lamar Reed” by Kymberly Pinder
- “Banksy’s Christmas Passion” by Emmie Donadio
- “Dying for Our Sins: Jesus’ Passion on the Silver Screen” by Adele Reinhartz
- Other Traditions
- “On Pesach and Pascha: Jews, Christians, and the Passion” by Jeremy Cohen
- “The Death of Jesus in Islam: Reality, Assumptions, and Implications” by Suleiman A. Mourad
- Ethics and Theology
- “Theological Themes in the Passion” by Katherine Sonderegger
- “Self-Giving, Nonviolence, Peacemaking: An Approach to Catholic Moral Life and Christ’s Passion” by William Werpehowski
Praise for the Print Edition
The story of Jesus’ last days—what other story has reverberated so deeply, broadly, and mysteriously through every form of Western art and culture? Often the stimulus for deep devotion, heroic deeds, and simple kindness—yet sometimes the excuse for hatred and unspeakable cruelty. This book confronts us with vast complexity, and the brilliance and clarity of its essays about specific instances that challenge our thinking and fire our imagination.
—Wayne A. Meeks, Woolsey Professor Emeritus Religious Studies, Yale University
This collection will inform and enrich the experience of worship during Holy Week and Easter. Illuminating the rich tradition of artistic depictions of the passion narratives, these authors display how creative human interpreters from within and outside of the church have grappled with these classic texts.
—Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, president, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest
- Title: Engaging the Passion: Perspectives on the Death of Jesus
- Author: Oliver Larry Yarbrough
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Pages: 441
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jesus Christ › Crucifixion; Jesus Christ › Passion--Art
- ISBNs: 9781451472158, 9781506400471, 1451472153, 1506400477
- Resource ID: LLS:ENGAGINGPASSION
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:41:38Z