Resources for Lent and Holy Week

This article is a work in progress and may be edited at any time. The recommendation of these resources does not mean that I endorse all of their contents.

Lent

• [Music Playlist] Travis Johnson, “A Lent Playlist from Holy Joys,” Holy Joys.
• [Article] Larry Smith, “Lent: Preparation for Easter,” Holy Joys.
• [Article] Johnathan Arnold, “An Introduction to the Church’s Liturgical Calendar,” Holy Joys.
• [Devotional] N. T. Wright, Lent for Everyone: Matthew, Year A: A Daily Devotional; Lent for Everyone: Mark, Year B: A Daily Devotional; Lent for Everyone: Luke, Year C: A Daily Devotional.
• [Book] Alexander Schmemann, Great Lent: Journey to Pascha.

Holy Week

• [Book of Sermons] Fleming Rutledge, The Undoing of Death.
• [Book] Andreas J. Köstenberger and Justin Taylor, The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived. Includes a Scripture reading plan.
• [Book] Joseph Ratzinger, Jesus of Nazareth: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection.

Palm Sunday

• [Icon] Icon of the Entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) from Uncut Mountain Supply.

Maundy Thursday

• See relevant resources in Resources for Studying the Sacraments.
• [Icon] Icon of the Mystical Supper from Uncut Mountain Supply.

Good Friday

• [Article] Jayson D. Bradley, “5 Suggestions for Observing Good Friday,” Logos.
• [Book] Athanasius, On the Incarnation. Focuses on Christ’s defeat of death by death as the reason for the incarnation.
• [Book] Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ.
• [Book] John Stott, The Cross of Christ.
• [Book] Joshua McNall, The Mosaic of Atonement: An Integrated Approach to Christ’s Work.
• [Book] N. T. Wright, The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion.
• [Book] Thomas McCall, Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why It Matters.
• [Book] Locating Atonement: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics. See especially Chapter 3, “The Patristic Atonement Model” by Ben Myers.
• [Book] Adam Johnson, Atonement: A Guide for the Perplexed.
• [Book] Hans Boersma, Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition.
• [Icon] Icon of the Crucifixion from Uncut Mountain Supply.

Holy Saturday

• [Book] Matthew Emerson, “He Descended to the Dead”: An Evangelical Theology of Holy Saturday.
• [Book] Samuel D. Renihan, Crux, Mors, Inferi: A Primer and Reader on Christ’s Descent
• [Monograph] Justin W. Bass, The Battle for the Keys: Revelation 1:18 and Christ’s Descent into the Underworld.
• [Book] Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev, Christ the Conqueror of Hell: The Descent into Hades from an Orthodox Perspective.
• [Icon] Harrowing of Hades (Chora) Resurrection Icon from Legacy Icons.

Easter Sunday

1. [Book] Alister McGrath, Resurrection. 87 pages. Poetry, prayer, and theological reflection.
2. [Book] N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope. 352 pages. Treats the resurrection as the beginning of new creation.
3. [Book] N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God. 848 pages.
4. [Book] Eugene Peterson, Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in Everyday Life (NavPress, 2006).
5. Robert B. Stewart (ed.), The Resurrection of Jesus: John David Crossan and N.T. Wright in Dialogue (Fortress Press, 2006).
6. [Sermon] John Chrysostom, “The Paschal Homily.”
7. [Sermon] Gregory of Nazianzus, “Oration 45: On Holy Pascha.”
8. [Sermon] Gregory of Nazianzus, “Oration 1: On Pascha and on His Slowness.”
9. [Icon] Icon of the Resurrection from Uncut Mountain Supply.
10. [Icon] Harrowing of Hades (Chora) Resurrection Icon from Legacy Icons.