02336cam a2200301 4500 428521251 ER5 20200622120000.0 191203|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019046930 9780593236666 0593236661 ER5 Meacham, Jon. Hope of glory. The hope of glory : reflections on the last words of Jesus from the cross / Jon Meacham. Reflections on the last words of Jesus from the cross. First edition. ℗♭2020. New York : Convergent, [2020] [2020] xii, 128 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-125). "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." -- "Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise." -- "Woman, behold they son!" "Behold thy mother!" -- "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" -- "I thirst." -- "It is finished." -- "Father, into they hands I commend my spirit.". Kirkus 01/15/2020. "For Jon Meacham, like believers worldwide, the events of Good Friday and Easter reveal essential truths about Christianity. A former vestryman of Trinity Church Wall Street and St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Meacham delves into that intersection of faith and history in this meditation on the seven phrases Jesus spoke from the cross. Beginning with "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do," and ending with "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit," Meacham captures for the reader how these words epitomize Jesus's message of love, not hate; grace, not rage; and, instead of vengeance, extraordinary mercy. For each saying, Meacham composes a meditation on the origins of Christianity and how Jesus's final words created a foundation for oral and written traditions that upended the very order of the world. In a tone more intimate than any of his previous award-winning works, Jon Meacham returns us to the moment that transformed Jesus from a historical figure into the proclaimed Son of God, worshiped by billions." --book jacket. 20200622. JESUS CHRIST Seven last words.