Jesus the Bridegroom by Brant Pitre
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In
Jesus
the Bridegroom,
Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and
tradition, and unlocks the secrets of what is arguably the most
well-known symbol of the Christian faith: the cross of Christ. In
this thrilling exploration, Pitre shows how the suffering and death
of Jesus was far more than a tragic Roman execution. Instead, the
Passion of Christ was the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies of
a wedding,
when the God of the universe would wed himself to humankind in an
everlasting nuptial covenant.
To
be sure, most Christians are familiar with the apostle Paul’s
teaching that Christ is the ‘Bridegroom’ and the Church is the
‘Bride’. But what does this really mean?
And what would ever possess Paul to compare the death of Christ to
the love of a husband for his wife? If you would have been at the
Crucifixion, with Jesus hanging there dying, is that how you
would
have described it? How could a first-century Jew like Paul, who knew
how brutal Roman crucifixions were, have ever compared the execution
of Jesus to a wedding? And why does he refer to this as the “great
mystery” (Ephesians 5:32)?
As
Pitre shows, the key to unlocking this mystery can be found by going
back to Jewish Scripture and tradition and seeing the entire history
of salvation, from Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary, as a
divine love story
between
Creator and creature, between God and Israel, between Christ and his
bride—a story that comes to its climax on the wood of a Roman
cross.
In
the pages of Jesus
the Bridegroom,
dozens of familiar passages in the Bible—the Exodus, the Song of
Songs, the Wedding at Cana, the Woman at the Well, the Last Supper,
the Crucifixion, and even the Second Coming at the End of Time—are
suddenly transformed before our eyes. Indeed, when seen in the light
of Jewish Scripture and tradition, the life of Christ is nothing less
than the greatest love story ever told.
Product Details:
- Paperback
- 224 pages
