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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...

and the Crucified and Buried One who has risen and appeared.11 According to Luke (24:5), the first question on Easter morning was “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” For Christ had been removed from the place of the dead to a new place, of deathlessness and life eternal. Yet the corollary of this is that “among the dead” is precisely the place where the Lord of life has been, so that he remains forever, even in his glory, the Living One who has been dead. Conversely, as we shall see Jüngel
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