Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Literary Meditations on Suffering, Death, and New Life

by David S. Cunningham

Theologian and writer David Cunningham draws from novels, poems, and plays to give a resource for humans who face suffering, death, and new life. He provides a religious reading of important literary texts, with three studies for each of the three themes--drawn together by the weekly sequence of Friday-Saturday-Sunday and the events of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. These reflections on universal experiences are enriched by Cunningham's presentations of Christian perspectives which are significant resources for dealing with grief and pain, separation and absence, and transformation and renewal.

208 pages, Paperback

First published March 17, 2007

About the author

David S. Cunningham is Professor of Religion and Director of the CrossRoads Project at Hope College, Michigan. He has published widely on the subjects of systematic, doctrinal and philosophical theology and Christian ethics.

He holds degrees in Communication Studies from Northwestern University, and in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Cambridge and Duke University. His works include Faithful Persuasion: In Aid of a Rhetoric of Christian Theology (Notre Dame, 1992) and These Three Are One: The Practice of Trinitarian Theology (Blackwell, 1998).