Lazarus without limits: scripture, tradition and the cultural life of a text

The "raising of Lazarus" is integrally connected with "the harrowing of hell" in those liturgical traditions which rightly value the linkage between the two for reflection on the scope and meaning of Christ's saving work. To neglect one or the other turns "Holy Saturday...

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Main Author: Loades, Ann 1938-2022 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2018]
In: International journal for the study of the Christian church
Year: 2018, Volume: 18, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 252-264
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HC New Testament
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
Further subjects:B Lazarus
B Resurrection
B from Yeats to Bowie
B Eastern and Western traditions
B Death
B Cana and Bethany
B poets and theologians (twenty - twenty-first centuries)
B biblical text to liturgy
B the harrowing of hell
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Summary:The "raising of Lazarus" is integrally connected with "the harrowing of hell" in those liturgical traditions which rightly value the linkage between the two for reflection on the scope and meaning of Christ's saving work. To neglect one or the other turns "Holy Saturday" into a liturgical and spiritual "blank" instead of a time of appropriate ways of reflection in respect of the horrors and griefs of our times and what may lie beyond them. Extraordinarily, however, those whose engagement with the realities around them is via the 'arts', continue to focus on either or both of Lazarus and the "harrowing of hell" and become the "theologians" for our times.
ISSN:1747-0234
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal for the study of the Christian church
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2018.1488352