The Theological Role of Paradox in the Gospel of Mark : The Library of New Testament Studies - Laura C.  Sweat

The Theological Role of Paradox in the Gospel of Mark

By: Laura C. Sweat

Hardcover | 30 July 2013 | Edition Number 1

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Scholarship on the Gospel of Mark has long been convinced of the paradoxical description of two of its primary themes, christology and discipleship. This book argues that paradoxical language pervades the entire narrative, and that it serves a theological purpose in describing God's activity.

Part One focuses on divine action present in Mark 4:10-12. In the first paradox, Mark portrays God's revelatory acts as consistently accompanied by concealment. The second paradox is shown in the various ways in which divine action confirms, yet counters, scripture. Finally, Mark describes God's actions in ways that indicate both wastefulness and goodness; deeds that are further illuminated by the ongoing, yet defeated, presence of evil. Part Two demonstrates that this paradoxical language is widely attested across Mark's passion narrative, as he continues to depict God's activity with the use of the three paradoxes observed in Mark 4. Through paradoxical narrative, Mark emphasizes God's transcendence and presence, showing that even though Jesus has brought revelation, a complete understanding of God remains tantalizingly out of their grasp until the eschaton (4:22).

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Sweat has produced a significant study of the theological outworking of paradox in Mark's Gospel through the parable of the sower and some sections of the passion narrative. She does not track God's identity and work through the verbal and dramatic instances of paradox in Mark, but through the theological lens of God simultaneously concealing and revealing, confirming and countering, and expressing wastefulness and goodness.--Narry F. Santos, Saddleback Church, Manila, Philippines "Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society "

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