Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Literary Meditations on Suffering, Death, and New Life

Name: Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Literary Meditations on Suffering, Death, and New Life
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ISBN: 9780664230753

By: David S. Cunningham

Westminster John Knox Press / 2007 / Paperback

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Drawing from important novels, plays, and poems, theologian David Cunningham reflects on the issues of suffering, death, and new life in the context of the Christian faith. The three days of Holy Week---Good Friday, Silent Saturday, and Easter Sunday---provide the framework for these reflections on the universal human experiences. These reflections are enriched by Cunningham's presentations of Christian perspectives, which are helpful resources for dealing with grief and pain, separation and absence, and transformation and renewal. Works discussed include those of T. S. Elliot, William Shakespeare, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Questions for discussion and reflection make this book useful for group study or personal devotion.

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Title: Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Literary Meditations on Suffering, Death, and New Life
By: David S. Cunningham
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 216
Vendor: Westminster John Knox Press

Publication Date: 2007
Weight: 12 ounces
ISBN: 066423075X
ISBN-13: 9780664230753
Stock No: WW230750

Publisher's Description

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Theologian and writer David Cunningham draws from novels, poems, and plays to give a resource for humans who face suffering, death, and new life. He provides a religious reading of important literary texts, with three studies for each of the three themes--drawn together by the weekly sequence of Friday-Saturday-Sunday and the events of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. These reflections on universal experiences are enriched by Cunningham's presentations of Christian perspectives which are significant resources for dealing with grief and pain, separation and absence, and transformation and renewal.

Author Bio

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David S. Cunningham is CrossRoads Director and Professor of Religion at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He is the author of Reading is Believing: The Christian Faith Through Literature and Film, Faithful Persuasion: In Aid of a Rhetoric of Christian Theology, and other books.