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Textweek ATLAS - April 3, 2016 Easter 2C

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

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Easter 2 - April 3, 2016

Blevins, William L., "The Early Church: Acts 1-5," Review & Expositor, 1974.
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"The material which composes Acts 1-5 has not one Sitz im Leben but two. There is the Sitz im Leben of the historical events recorded in these chapters~the actual situation of the earliest Christian community. Also, there is the Sitz im Leben of the author of Luke-Acts-a situation toward the end of the first century A.D. wherein adherents of Gentile Christianity were struggling to validate their gospel and to establish the integrity of their own existence as a viable community of faith."

Hauerwas, Stanley, "Embodied Memory," Journal for Preachers, 1996. (Sermon)
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"What a story we have to tell the world. What a different politics we have to hold up to the world—a politics of memory not governed by blame and guilt. Surely a people capable of being a forgiving people, capable of remembering the Holocaust will be blessed to God—yet do not expect the world to praise us for such remembering. The world does not want to be reminded. But what could be better news than to be God's people—that is, a people called to witness to God's triumph over the terror of the world's forgetfulness by being made participants in God's memory."

Peterson, Heidi A., "Fanning the Flames," The Christian Century, 2001.
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 "The whole point of being free was being free to do ministry. The passage presents a striking contrast between the disposition and mission of the high priest and that of Peter. Throughout, the priest is beset with anger and fear over his mission of shutting Peter down. But not Peter, who is focused on the dissemination of the gospel—a mission that affords him a joyful and resilient attitude."

Breuer, Sarah Dylan, "Never-Ending Story," The Christian Century, 2007.
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"When human history seems like a spiral of violence from beginning to end, we can remind ourselves that Jesus is Alpha and Omega, that the Judge is the Reconciler."

Textweek ATLAS - March 27, 2016, Easter C

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Easter - Mar 27

Daniel, Lillian, "You Are Grounded, Luke 24:1-12," Journal for Preachers, 2004.
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"In the midst of an empty tomb that looked nothing like what they were expecting, came a message to the lost and the losers—a challenge to spread the good news to all God's people. You don't have to empty the tomb yourself. You just have to point out to others that it's been done."

 

Clayton, Kimberly L., "The Easter Texts: Getting Hold (or not) of Easter,"Currents in Theology and Mission, 2007.

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"The Risen Christ is on the move in new ways in the world and he calls on Mary to get moving, too. So, after she stayed there that Easter morning, Mary went. And it was her joy, and her responsibility, to announce that a startling new morning of the world had begun." 

Hays, Richard B., "'Do Not Cling to Me,'" The Christian Century, 1992.

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"His resurrection is not an isolated miracle; rather, it is the sign of God's design to defeat the power of death and to embrace fallen creatures into his family."

Copenhaver, Martin B., "Easter Nonsense," Journal for Preachers, 2007. (Sermon)
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"One thing I appreciate about preaching on Easter year after year is the opportunity to notice something new in this familiar story."

 

Bartlett, David, "The Easter Texts: Hope, Comfort, Courage," Journal for Preachers, 2006.

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"Probably no single sermon can or should attend to all the reasons Paul is so concerned to reaffirm the common faith in Jesus' resurrection, but the preacher needs to remember what's going on here. Throughout I Corinthians, Paul is responding to information he has received about some of the dubious theological claims the Corinthian Christians are making."

 

 

 

Brown, Raymond E., "The Resurrection in John 20 -- A Series of Diverse Reactions," Worship, 1990.
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 "John is a gospel of encounters: Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman at the well, the cripple at Bethesda, the man born blind, Mary and Martha, and even Pilate. One after the other they have made their entrance onto the Johannine stage to encounter Jesus, the light come into the world; and in so doing they have judged themselves by whether or not they continue to come to the light or turn away and prefer darkness (Jn 3:19-21). It is not surprising, then, that the principal Johannine account of the appearances of the risen Jesus becomes a series of encounters illustrating different faith reactions."

 

Textweek ATLAS - March 20 Palm/Passion C

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Passion/Psalm Sunday

March 20, 2016

 

King, Michael A., "Holy Hate," The Christian Century, 2007.
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"This man has done nothing wrong. Maybe this means that he is the only one who has been able fully to resist our ceaseless craving to take one more step behind the other's sin to claim, "You're wrong, but I'm right." If so, how this only one who has never done wrong behaves when the whole world mockingly assures him "we're right; you're wrong" may be worth copying." 

Brown, Raymond E., "The Passion According to Luke," Worship, 1986.
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"Lucan crucifixion, however, is clearly a moment of God's forgiveness and of healing grace through and by Jesus. The theological language may be different, but the atoning effects are the same."

 

Gaiser, Frederick J., "A Preacher's Conversation with Second Isaiah," Word and World, 1994.
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"...that's your job—or your privilege—to point to how and where God happens, to call people to be participants in the process. It will take all your creativity and all your courage to get it right, all your poetry and all your prowess to get a hearing. But, give it a shot! You might be amazed to find out what God can do through people he has set free. And so might they!"

Elvey, Anne, "Earth as Intertext: 'The Stones Would Shout Out' (Luke 19:40),Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin, 2006.
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 "A recent article suggests that even in his writing style, Luke levels out "humps and hollows" in the text, favoring instead a kind of narrative enchainment that delimits meaning (see Longenecker)."

Brown, Rebecca Pugh, "Preaching Justice and Mercy: Reflections on the Lectionary Readings for April," The Living Pulpit, 2007. (See also "Atonement," issue focus of The Living Pulpit, 16.2, 2007.)

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"Three themes are significant in this Palm Sunday scripture: pageantry, humility, and mystery."