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Meeting God in MARK - A lifelong passion - 4
Meeting God in MARK - A lifelong passion - 4
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
A lifelong passion About one-third of St Mark’s Gospel is taken up with the events of the last week of Jesus’ life, the story of Jesus’ betrayal, suffering and death, his ‘Passion’. It’s a very striking proportion, which has led some scholars to describe St Mark as a Passion narr…
Meeting God in MARK - Introduction -1
Meeting God in MARK - Introduction -1
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Introduction I am very much indebted to SPCK for once again being willing to make available to a wider audience what started as a short series of Holy Week talks in Canterbury Cathedral (in 2010). The text has been transcribed from recordings and I have left most of it unaltered,…
Meeting God in MARK - Telling Secrets -3
Meeting God in MARK - Telling Secrets -3
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Telling secrets We have begun to think in general terms about what kind of book St Mark’s Gospel is, and we have tried to identify the double demand that it makes of its readers: the demand to entertain the relationship into which the writer seeks to draw us, and so to enter into…
Meeting God in MARK - The beginning of the Gospel -2
Meeting God in MARK - The beginning of the Gospel -2
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
The beginning of the Gospel The Gospel according to St Mark can seem like something of a Cinderella among the Gospels. For many hundreds of years it was used in public worship far less than any other of the Gospels. It never attracted the great – indeed the encyclopaedic – commen…
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