Deeper Than Words by David Steindl-Rast

Author:David Steindl-Rast [Steindl-Rast, Brother David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-58962-0
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2010-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Died and Was Buried

What does this really mean?

The affirmation that Jesus DIED relates back to BORN in an earlier section of the Creed and emphasizes that we are dealing here with the full human reality from birth to death. To the eyes of faith, the immediate reality of our whole life span between birth and death becomes a receptive vessel for the presence of God. Like Jesus, we must learn to put our faith in God, amid the pleasures and pains of daily living, and not get lost in the abstractions of philosophical or theological speculation.

DIED AND WAS BURIED also means gone, a failure—radically wiped out by the domination system opposing him, and to which he was opposed. This marks the negative pole to which the resurrection will provide the positive counterpole.

As a historical corollary—not as a statement of faith—BURIED also implies that the corpse of Jesus was identified and handled by witnesses and put in a grave. This seems to have been highly unusual for victims of crucifixion, yet all four Gospels tell us in detail about the burial of Jesus. Our understanding of the Resurrection will depend on our evaluation of the historicity of these accounts.

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