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THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS AND HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION: RESOURCES FOR LENT 2025

Bibliographic Brief for Lent 2025

Bibliographic Brief for Lent 2025: The Cross and the Resurrection

For Journal Articles and Chapters on the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus, see:

JSTOR (Luther Sem access): thousands of journal articles or book chapters on this theme

Biblical Studies database (Bloomsbury Collection, 2015- 2020

Luther Sem's Online Commentaries: Hermeneia, ICC, Anchor-Yale, Ministry Matters

Select Readings for Lent and Holy Week

What and When Is Lent? An Introduction from CompassionUK

From the Working Preacher's Narrative Lectionary:

Christ Conquered Death. He Didn’t Cancel It, by J. Rosner in CT magazine

Select EBOOKS on Theology of the Cross, available at Luther Sem

Christopraxis : a practical theology of the Cross (by Andrew Root)

Portraits of Jesus in the Gospel of John : a Christological spectrum (Craig Koester, ed.)

Luther's Outlaw God (Volume 2, Hidden in the cross) by Steven Paulson

The Crucifixion : understanding the death of Jesus Christ (2015)

Cross and Cosmos: a theology of difficult glory

Christ as sacrament and example : Luther's theology of the cross and its relevance for South Asia

Cross Theology: the classical theologia crucis and Karl Barth's modern theology of the cross

Cross Vision : how the crucifixion of Jesus makes sense of Old Testament violence

Cross Vision Study Guide

Engaging the Passion : perspectives on the death of Jesus

Jesus and the Cross: necessity, meaning, and atonement

Knowing Christ Crucified: the witness of African American religious experience

Rupturing Eschatology: divine glory and the silence of the cross

Theodicy and the Cross of Christ: a New Testament Inquiry.

Resurrection of Jesus: an animated video from the Bible Project (YouTube)

The Resurrection Of JESUS: Forgotten FACTS & IMPACT: YouTube video with NT Wright

Atonement Theology: Brief YouTube Talk by N.T. Wright, focused on the Four Gospels

The Cross of Jesus: YouTube Lecture (1 hour) by N.T.Wright at Wheaton College, 2017

Recent Books at LS Library on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (2021-- 2025)

Augustine's Theology of the Resurrection (2023)

Resurrection and Renewal - Jesus and the Transformation of Creation (2024)

The Final Days : a lenten journey through the Gospels (2025)

Eternal in the Heavens : time, heaven, and resurrection (2024)

The Stones of the Last Week : impediments to Easter (2024)

The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus (2024)

Paul and the Rhetoric of Resurrection : 1 Corinthians 15 as "insinuatio" (2023)

Resurrection remembered: a memory approach to Jesus' resurrection in First Corinthians (2024)

Refiguring Resurrection: a biblical and systematic eschatology (2023)

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: exploring its theological significance and ongoing relevance (2022)

Investigating the resurrection of Jesus Christ : a new transdisciplinary approach (2022)

The Perspective of Resurrection: a Trinitarian Challenge (2021)

The Body of the Cross: holy victims and the invention of the atonement

Hope in Times of Fear: the Resurrection and the meaning of Easter (2021)

Investigating the resurrection of Jesus Christ : a new transdisciplinary approach (2022)

Resurrected to Eternal Life: on dying and rising, by J. Moltmann (2021)

The Resurrection of Jesus: apologetics, criticism, history

Third Voice: preaching resurrection (2021)

Christ the Tragedy of God : a theological exploration of tragedy

Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?: historical and theological reflections

Help My Unbelief, 20th Anniversary Edition

History and Eschatology: Jesus and the promise of natural theology

Jesus in Jerusalem: the last days

Knowing Christ Crucified: the witness of African American religious experience

Luther's Theology of the Cross: Christ in Luther's sermons on John

On Resurrection (Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval continuation, v.20)

Participating in Christ: explorations in Paul's theology and spirituality

Resurrecting Easter: how the West lost and the East kept the original Easter vision

Resurrection: texts and interpretation, experience and theology

Resurrection Logic: how Jesus' first followers believed God raised him from the dead

The Cross-And-Resurrection: the supreme sign in John's Gospel

The Doubt of the Apostles and the Resurrection Faith of the Early Church: the post-resurrection appearance stories of the Gospels in ancient reception and modern debate

The Faithfulness of the Risen Christ: pistis and the exalted Lord in the Pauline letters

First Biography of Jesus: genre and meaning in Mark's gospel (2020)

The Glory of the Crucified One: christology and theology in the Gospel of John

The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics

The Mysteries, Resurrection, and 1 Corinthians 15: comparative methodology and contextual exegesis

The Power of Resurrection : Foucault, discipline, and early Christian resistance

The Cross-Shaped Life: taking on Christ's humanity (2021)