The Passion as Liturgy

This book suggests why it is that we have several accounts of the sufferings and death of Jesus, and investigates what the original passion narrative might have been as it seeks to recreate the response of the earliest Christians in their amazed contemplation of God's saving act in Christ. This book, based on Passiontide Lectures delivered at Lincoln Theological College, suggests why it is that we have several accounts of the sufferings and death of Jesus, and investigates what the original passion narrative might have been. Its concern is not, however, with a reconstruction of the historical episodes of the trial and execution of Jesus. Rather, it seeks to recreate the response of the earliest Christians in their amazed contemplation of God's saving act in Christ.