Into Your Hand: Confronting Good Friday
By Walter Brueggemann and Richard Rohr
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Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is the author of dozens of books, including Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out, and Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age.
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Into Your Hand - Walter Brueggemann
Into Your Hand
Confronting Good Friday
Walter Brueggemann
Foreword by Richard Rohr
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Confronting Good Friday
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Brueggemann, Walter.
Into your hand : confronting Good Friday / Walter Brueggemann. ; foreword by Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M.
p.; cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 13: 978-1-4982-0647-1
1. Preaching. 2. Bible. N.T.—Homiletical use. 3. Bible. O.T.—Homiletical use. I. Rohr, Richard. II. Title.
BS1191.5 B75 2014
Manufactured in the U.S.A. 10/30/2014
Foreword
So strange that a Good Friday book would make me so happy! It somehow seems wrong and inappropriate. That was surely not Walter Brueggemann’s original intention. Or was it? Maybe even unbeknown to him?
As I read each powerful meditation and perfectly connected psalm, I experienced the healing power that contact with Big Truth will always give. This was not the sentimentalized Good Friday seven last words
that I had grown up with, but a full body blow of contact with Reality. Making use of the biblical scholarship and sharp insight that we have all come to expect from him, Walter Brueggemann then goes further. He reveals an amazing awareness of human suffering, family, relationships, despair, hard won faith, and personal grief that the crucifixion accounts beautifully and subtly reveal.
If it is true that it is contact with Reality that makes us whole, and if that is the salvific function of the Christ Life, then it is no wonder or surprise that these meditations would make make us very happy indeed. Not only is the confluence of life and death the supreme human paradox, but it also has the power to create a paradox of emotions in the soul. One can be both stricken and deeply joyful at the same time. One can be afflicted and somehow content in the same moment. But only at the level of soul and Spirit! And that is exactly where this magnificent little book will lead you.
Even a little bit of God goes a very long way. Even a little portion of truth satisfies the soul. Even a momentary contact with Reality is enough to stun us into a strange kind of satisfied silence. But in each case it is a suffering to stay there and stand there and allow such an electric shock to the soul. Jesus on the cross, and his words from that place, show us exactly how to stay there. And from that position he also shows us the immense price of solidarity with the suffering of the world, which is also the suffering of God. Then the Marys standing below, mirror the mystery in feminine form, and show us how to stand with all victims without creating more victims ourselves.
Without exaggerating, I know these finely meditated meditations can and will have the same effect on any sincere and serious reader. They will discover you! As true Gospel always does. They will open up parts of your experience and your inner solidarity with divine and human sadness—which might have been too much to know
until the very moment of reading. That is the patient and polite way that