This is the Night: Suffering, Salvation, and the Liturgies of Holy Week (Biblia.com)

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This Is the Night is a work of “liturgical theology,” understood as a theology inspired or informed by the liturgies of Christian Holy Week. In the context of modernity in crisis, it is an attempt to think with the principal liturgies of the “Paschal Triduum” – Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Great Vigil of Easter – about human suffering. The author works from an analysis of the structure...

One might object that this paschal soteriology risks quietism in the face of the suffering that is inflicted on human beings by others. By bundling all suffering into the cross and declaring that God’s redemption is there, do we not valorize suffering? More precisely, does the Triduum dull our capacity for response to the suffering caused by political oppression and the fearful use of authority because God works redemption through our suffering?

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