{"product_id":"seven-last-words-cross-and-creation-9781725298262","title":"Seven Last Words: Cross and Creation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe cross is regarded as Jesus Christ's great work of salvation. But is it also a work of creation? Excitingly plumbing Scripture and Christian tradition, Andrew McGowan shows that it is. \"Each of Jesus's seven words from the cross can be understood as a creative act, as a new divine work,\" he writes. From the cross, Jesus works forgiveness, bestows Paradise, enacts human relationship, identifies completely with humanity, fulfills Scripture, and reenacts Sabbath. From early days, Christians-for good reason-linked the original seven days of creation with creation and re-creation at the apex of salvation. \u003cem\u003eSeven Last Words \u003c\/em\u003erecovers this linkage in all its power and perennial freshness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut that is not all. In addition to surveying the seven last words Jesus spoke, McGowan insists that at the cross \"the eternal Word not only speaks, but listens.\" And so he turns to the \"conversations\" spoken not only from but to the cross. Here he opens new vistas on the words of Judas, Dismas (the criminal crucified beside Jesus), Mary, God the Father, Longinus (the centurion), and Nicodemus, and ruminates fascinatingly on the accompanying silence of the angels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfound and endlessly edifying, \u003cem\u003eSeven Last Words\u003c\/em\u003e will richly repay reading and rereading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cascade Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781725298262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d","brand":"Andrew B. McGowan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39638193799349,"sku":"9781725298262","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a3206705-1ffe-4a6c-8642-733fe69788de.jpg?v=1617680833","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/seven-last-words-cross-and-creation-9781725298262","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}