PASSION

by Karl A. Olsson ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 27, 1963

Here we have a ""passionate"" recall to a renewed understanding and deepened appreciation of the Passion of Jesus. Dr. Karl A. Olsson feels that the Christian Church lacks the passion which is its essential reason for being. ""If what our Lord suffered on the cross"", he writes, ""and what he suffers today in the midst of the anguish of sinful men is real, then the Church must begin to feel it so that the pulses throb and the heart is lifted up in adoration."" His is an attempt to bring men back to the Cross that they be made to stand with the primitive church at the source of its own passion, that they may feel that godly sorrow ""which works repentance not to be repented of"". ""Either we accept the atonement of Christ, or we repeat it."" So the author considers the ways in which Christians did and do look at the passion of our Lord. The study is thoroughly Biblical, but its application is thoroughly contemporary. The Passion is made arrestingly relevant to our condition; to be a Christian today is to be a fellow of Christ's passion. Though he be destroyed, he is not to betray. He may not share the glory without sharing the reproach. It is hard to think of a better book for the clergy to read to prepare themselves for Lent and to give them new power in the preaching of Jesus' Passion.

Pub Date: March 27, 1963

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Publisher: Harper & Row

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1963

Categories: NONFICTION