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Lent 5A
April 6, 2014
- Callahan, Allen Dwight, "Perspectives for a Study of African American Religion from the Valley of Dry Bones," Nova Religio, 2003.
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ABSTRACT: In "Perspectives For a Study of African American Religion," Charles Long wrote of "three interrelated perspectives for the study of black religion": "Africa as historical reality and religious image," "the involuntary presence of the black community in America," and "the experience and symbol of God." I essay to show how Long's categories illumine a celebrated instance of African American biblical appropriation, the prophet's vision of dry bones in Ezekiel 37:1-14, as emblematic of the perspectives of symbolic African absence, involuntary American presence, and collective theological experience of the slaves and their descendent».
- Seitz, Christopher R., "Ezekiel 37:1-14, Expository Article," Interpretation, 1992.
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“The dilemma is that God's justice leads to death, and in death the knowledge of God would seem to be extinguished, finally and forever. It is here, in this Valley of Bones, that the God of extreme judgment reveals to the prophet the utter divine freedom to save and to fashion a new people out of utterly dead bones.”
- Taylor, Barbara Brown, "Can These Bones Live?"The Christian Century, 1996.
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“God puts an end to death by working through it, not by going around it.”
- Tanner, Beth, "Preaching the Penitential Psalms,"Word & World, 2007.
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“In a day when confession of sins is often seen as out of step with culture, preaching and teaching the penitential psalms can awaken people to the power of this central aspect of the good news of Christian faith.”
- Hedin, Barbara Ann, "Between Text and Sermon, Romans 8:6-11," Interpretation, 1996.
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“Perhaps the most hope-filled verse is the last. It strikes me as a promise for the present generation. For those who may want to say that the task of setting our minds on the Spirit is too much for God to accomplish in us, this verse announces that "your God is too small." After all, this is the same God who raised Christ from the dead!”
- Guthrie, Suzanne, "Back to Life," The Christian Century, 2005.
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“Double irony. Lazarus comes forth from death for death, this time not by disease but perhaps by the disturbed Sanhedrin—to be put to death for responding to life. Just as Jesus would be put to death for bringing forth life.”
- Robertson, Anne, "Between Text & Sermon: John 11:1-53," Interpretation, 2004.
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“The story of the raising of Lazarus could keep a preacher busy well beyond the lectionary's recommended times of Lent 5 in Year A and All Saints Day. I have used it as an Easter text, and the dialogue with Martha is a common reading at funerals. This text can be used as a comfort, as a hope, and as a challenge.”
- Wardlaw, Theodore J., "When Jesus Wept: John 11:1-45," Journal for Preachers, 2000.
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“When Jesus was done weeping, he handed his own life to God for safekeeping, and then he shouted into the darkness of the tomb where Lazarus lay. If the truth be known, he didn't just shout but he screamed. He screamed out everything he had to give, and it was a scream which echoes down throughout all of time. It was a scream loud enough to wake the dead.”
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