Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal
Document Type
Article
Keywords
passion, cross, meditation, dying, contemplation, essay
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
Of all the images which depict Jesus, perhaps the one that deserves extended and in-depth contemplation is that of the passion of our Lord. This image is both rich in meaning and communicates different things to different people based upon their context and their pastoral need. This becomes clear when Martin Luther considers how one should meditate upon the cross of Christ in two different works written just months apart in 1519. The first, written in April, is called Meditation Upon Christ’s Passion1 and the second A Sermon on Preparing to Die2 was penned in November. Despite being written so close together, they prescribe different types of meditation upon the passion of Christ.
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)
1 Peter 3:19; Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34; Psalm 51:3; Philippians 4:8;
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
People in this Resource (separated by commas)
Martin Luther, John A Maxfield, Anna Marie Johnson
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Kraemer, Jonathan
(2024)
"The Powerful Image of the Passion,"
Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/grapho/vol7/iss1/4