Theological Journal - April 11: Toward the 8th Day (Holy Saturday)
“The knowledge of Easter does not relax but maximizes the need to follow its antecedents in their narrative order. Then the grave of Jesus becomes a boundary preventing forward movement until one has first looked back, without the light of Easter, at the cross and seen its cataclysmic extinguishing of every light. In fact, there is no boundary, only a no man’s land. With no remarkable tomorrow on the horizon to give that sabbath special identity and form as an interruption between old and new, the interment of Jesus is shapeless and anti-climactic. It is simply the day after terminal rupture . This is the end of a man, a mission and a message; the end of the God of whom the message spoke, from whom the mission came, and to whom the man was Son; and the end of the world for all whose future hung with the coming of the Father’s kingdom. (Alan E. Lewis, “The Burial of God: Rupture and Resumption as the Story of Salvation,” Scottish Journal of Theology , Vol. 40, No. 3 (1...