Mark is a brilliant storyteller and a thoughtful theologian, one of whose distinctive traits is his realism. Mark’s gospel is a theology of the cross, and before the cross there is nowhere to hide. All human life is there.
This book aims to present the Jesus of Mark’s faith. Fr Harrington opens with chapters on Mark and on Jesus and then explores the Jesus of this gospel as prophet, as teacher, as healer, as exorcist, and as Messiah. Finally, he returns to the cross:
‘On the cross, Jesus shows what it is to be human… He shows us that we are truly human when we accept our humanness, when we face up to the fact that we are not masters of our fate… On its own, humankind has indeed reason to fear. With God, in total dependence on God, there is no place for fear. The resurrection of
Jesus makes that clear.’
This clear, simply written book will be invaluable to all who preach, teach or simply want to understand better the gospel of Mark.
Wilfrid John Harrington is an Irish Dominican. His theological studies were done in Rome and his biblical studies at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. He is Professor of Scripture at the Dominican House of Studies, Dublin, Senior Lecturer at the Milltown Institute ofTheology, and visiting lecturer at the University of Dublin. He has taught summer courses in the United States regularly since 1965. He has written extensively on both the Old and New Testaments.
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