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Into the Far Country: The Betrayal of Joseph and the Trial of Jesus (O’Donovan, 2017)

A Holy Week exploration of Jesus’ “journey into a far country” by reading it alongside the story of Joseph’s search for his brothers.

Resurrection and the Senses: In Defence of Thomas (O’Donovan, 2016)

The upper room is the scene where faith is given, and as such is as important to God’s victory as the empty tomb. It would not have been enough that the resurrection should simply have happened; that could have had no more meaning than the birth and death of galaxies. It was an event with meaning, a communicative event, and until the meaning is grasped, the communicative purpose was not accomplished. The resurrection changed the way God’s human creatures could grasp hold of their task of living.

The Reclamation of Creation (Fretheim, 1991)

Whereas in modern times Genesis has been read in the light of Exodus, and creation has been understood in the light of redemption and the giving of the law at Mount Sinai, it now seems clear that one must reverse the order Exodus is to be understood in the light of Genesis and redemption and law in the light of creation.