Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 385 g
Ritual Elements in Mark's Passion Narrative
Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 385 g
Reihe: The Library of New Testament Studies
ISBN: 978-0-567-03306-2
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
Mark's Gospel has been seen as history, or as literature. The tensions between these two approaches point to what neither approach can articulate: the rich and ambiguous connections and disjuncture’s between human experience itself and human retelling, remembering, and reliving of that experience. This energetic pulling and resistance between our ordered categories and the chaos of existence fuels Mark's gospel and arguably Christianity itself. With the aid of ritual theory this book seeks to explore that energy in Mark's passion narrative. In particular, Duran uses Catherine Bell's concept of 'ritualization', the process of ordinary actions taking on ritual meaning and form, to examine the ways in which the gospel draws from the chaos of Jesus' death and the wrong, upside-down order it signifies, a frightening kind of meaning and hope. Defining ritual as an effort to make order of experience without losing the turbulent truth of experience itself, Duran points out ways in which Mark's story engages in such an effort of ritualization.
