The Things He Said
The story of the first Easter Day
Published on 19. November 2009
96 pages
978-0-281-06295-9 (ISBN)
Description
The follow-up to the author's highly successful The Things He Carried, this book takes the post-resurrection sayings of Jesus as starting-points and uses the same reflection format.
The meaning and significance of the resurrection, how it was first communicated and how it is communicated to us today, are explored by piecing together these sayings of Jesus.
However, the content may not quite be what we imagine. Following the resurrection, we would expect the triumphant 'I have risen from the dead'. Yet Jesus' statements are so different, so apparently innocuous, that they are often overlooked. The Christian faith stands or falls on the resurrection of Jesus; without it, says St Paul, we are to be most pitied. In this revelatory book of surprising reflections, Stephen Cottrell's retelling of the Easter story encourages us to slow down and hear it properly - perhaps for the very first time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-0-281-06295-9 (9780281062959)
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Book
11/2009
SPCK Publishing
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Person
Stephen Cottrell is the Bishop of Chelmsford and was formerly the Bishop of Reading. He has worked in parishes in London and Chichester, as Canon Pastor of Peterborough Cathedral, as Missioner in the Wakefield diocese and as part of Springboard, the Archbishop's evangelism team.
Content
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
Part One: Early Morning
1 3
2 Why are you weeping? 11
3 Who are you looking for? 17
4 Mary 23
5 Do not cling to me 29
6 My God and your God 35
Part Two: Late Afternoon
7 What are you discussing as you walk along? 41
8 Was it not necessary that the Messiah
should suffer? 51
9 Peace be with you 61
10 As the Father sent me, so I am sending you 65
Postscript: A biblical note - inhabiting the Scriptures 71
Discussion questions 77
Introduction xi
Part One: Early Morning
1 3
2 Why are you weeping? 11
3 Who are you looking for? 17
4 Mary 23
5 Do not cling to me 29
6 My God and your God 35
Part Two: Late Afternoon
7 What are you discussing as you walk along? 41
8 Was it not necessary that the Messiah
should suffer? 51
9 Peace be with you 61
10 As the Father sent me, so I am sending you 65
Postscript: A biblical note - inhabiting the Scriptures 71
Discussion questions 77
