Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 138
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-9787-1095-5 • Hardback • May 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-9787-1096-2 • eBook • May 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
James B. Pendleton teaches courses in New Testament and Greek at Azusa Pacific University and Fuller Theological Seminary.
Introduction: Biblical Narrative and Cartographic Temporalism
1. Space and the Gospel of Mark: A Critical Review
2. Theorizing Space as an Embodied Production
3. The Temple in Galilee? Centralizing Sacred Space in Mark’s Narrative World (3:20-35)
4. No Space for Figs? Temple-World Economυ (οικονομια) in Mark 11:1-25
5. Behind the Veil? Kenotic Spatiality and the Intercalated Body of God(’s Son) in Mark 15:37-39
James B. Pendleton’s The Body of Creation advances Biblical studies by paying attention to “sacred space”. This concept, alien to Western culture, has significant ramifications for understanding Mark’s Gospel as well as the historical Jesus. Jesus not only appropriated sacred space but made space for service and suffering within it. Hence, he created a “third-space” in which humility became honor, suffering became power, or, in Greek terms, kenosis became ktisis. His concept of kenotic economy of space has nuclear implications for Christians and churches orienting ministries around Jesus’s paradoxical demonstration of power through service and suffering.
— Mark Moore, teaching pastor, Christ's Church of the Valley, Peoria, AZ
The relationship of Jesus and the Jerusalem temple in Mark’s Gospel has attracted significant scholarly attention, typically leading to agonistic conclusions: Jesus against temple, Jesus replaces temple. By means of careful attention to Jesus’s “spatial practice,” Pendleton presses the conversation forward largely by reshaping it in a creative direction that undercuts binary conceptualizations.
— Joel B. Green, Fuller Theological Seminary