Description: John's gospel does not record ""Thomas's doubt,"" as
later generations of Christians have branded the story. Rather,
John presents Thomas's faith. In this work, Robert H. Smith
approaches Thomas as one who believes in the reality of
incarnation: God has a body. Too often, Smith argues, Christians
read John's gospel for its lyrical discourses. The resulting
portrait of Jesus is a ""cross-less Christ,"" a portrait that
contributes powerfully to Christian triumphalism. In contrast,
Smith finds that the evangelist always has the cross in view. Smith
reads John ""backwards,"" through the eyes of Thomas. In so doing,
he demonstrates the centrality of a wounded Lord in the theology of
the gospel. But this book does not end with hermeneutics. Smith
advances his discussion into the life of discipleship. Anyone
dwelling in Christ's body will be similarly marked. What does it
mean to live in the world as the marked body of Christ? Everyone
who poses the question will want to read this book. Martha E.
Stortz Professor of Historical Theology and Ethics Pacific Lutheran
Theological Seminary/The Graduate Theological Union Berkeley,
California Endorsements: ""Always an innovative teacher and writer,
Smith trumps all that in his final book. He finds in Thomas's plea
to see Jesus's wounds precisely what John's Gospel wants us to see:
a God who became incarnate in Jesus, wounds and all. This gospel is
not saying, according to Smith, 'Jesus is like (the almighty) God',
but that 'God is like this wounded Jesus.' When I used Robert's
ideas recently to end a gospels course, one student said, in
effect, 'You have kept the best teaching until now.'"" --Everett R.
Kalin Christ Seminary Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley ""In
Wounded Lord we find Robert Smith's last testament, a meditation on
his favorite gospel. Renouncing all moralizing, ethnocentrism, and
religious triumphalism, Smith focuses on Jesus's self-sacrificing
love as the clue to God's nature and as power to heal all
divisions. This is a book for everyone to reencounter John's Jesus,
whose glory was to give self away so that all humanity might even
now be one with him 'in the lap of the Father.'"" --Gary Pence
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary ""From the beginning of my
pastoral ministry, I have relied on Robert H. Smith for cogent,
pertinent, and deep reflection on Christian scriptures . . . Is he
correct that the whole of the book needs to be refracted through
the Thomas story, that the risen Christ always and necessarily
bears the wounds of crucifixion? I believe so, and you ought to
read the book to consider the question yourself. It will bless your
devotional practice, your teaching and preaching, and your
understanding of God's suffering for and with us."" --Rev. Brian
Stein-Webber Trinity Lutheran Church, Oakland, California About the
Contributor(s): Robert H Smith (1932-2006), was professor of New
Testament at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and served as a
member of the core doctoral faculty of the Graduate Theological
Union in Berkeley, California. He is the author of Apocalypse: A
Commentary on Revelation in Words and Images (2000), and Easter
Gospels: The Resurrection of Jesus According to the Four
Evangelists (1983) He has published commentaries on Matthew (1989),
Acts (1970), and Hebrews (1984). He co-authored several books with
Paul Fullmer, Read Greek by Friday (Wipf &Stock, 2004), Read
Greek by Friday: The Gospel of John & 1 John (Wipf & Stock,
2005), Greek at a Glance (Wipf & Stock, 2007).
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