Go home!


Go register!
RECENT ENTRIES
-Euhemerist typology
-Ascension in song
-Eucharistic meditation
-Exhortation
-Truth and Error
-Persona again
-Persona
-Feast of Rededication
-Savage Miracles
-Hebrew and Hellenist
-Maximilian the martyr
-Orientalizing revolution
-Monastic conformism
-Linguistic Girardianism
-Carthaginian Tophet
-Apsethus the god
-Failure of the Church
-Moses and Christ
-Truth and Freedom
-What Rough Beast?
CATEGORY ARCHIVES
    • LINKS
    - Biblical Horizons
    - Covenant Worldview Institute
    - Theologia
    FEED

    CONTACT

    Comments:
    leithart@leithart.com

    Problems:
    webmaster@leithart.com





    « Previous Post | Next Post »
    « Previous post in category | Next post in category »

    Bible - NT - Mark: Mark’s Meta-Irony

    [Print] | [Email]

    Mark is known for the understated irony of his gospel, but there is a large-scale irony overarching the book that is worthy of Sophocles. Readers know from the first verse of the gospel that Jesus is Son of God, and that title is used periodically through the gospel by the Father and by demons. But no human beings recognize Jesus as Son until the centurion at the cross.

    There is the ironic distance between our knowledge and the knowledge of the characters in the story. But that irony is eventually doubled back on the reader: Would we recognize Jesus as Son of God while He’s dying in anguish?

    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at 8:45 am