Recent reflections on the Gospel according to Mark.

From: Biblical Theology Bulletin | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract

This article is an invitation to each reader to reflect on our journey through life with an amazingly deep work like the Gospel of Mark. Mark puts a radical question to our vision of life, the kind of God we believe in, the journey that that God invites---or better commands--us to make. As the poet said, it is above all an invitation to dance within the storm of life as Jesus once did for us.

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Perhaps the high point of the journey of Mark's elusive, mysterious, open-ended, yet challenging Gospel is that it was the gospel read in churches throughout ...

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