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For much of Christian history the church has given no place to Holy Saturday in its liturgy or worship. Yet the space dividing Calvary and the Garden may be the best place from which to reflect on the meaning of Christ’s death and resurrection. This superb work by the late Alan Lewis develops on a grand scale and in great detail a theology of Holy Saturday. The first comprehensive theology of...

Those who have heard the central, three-day Christian story and have traversed the path from cross to garden discover at the boundary which the second day interposes between the death of Christ and his resurrection a point of ready access which allows the mind and heart easy movement and a fertile cross-reference between the two. For the first-time traveler, however, the boundary is a frontier-barrier obstructing
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