Paul Ciholas

A historian walks the route of the Passion of Jesus of Nazareth

After two millennia, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ remain the founda-tion of Christian faith. No matter how often the story of Easter is told and how much it is explained, we are awed by the inscrutability of God’s incarnation in Christ and find ourselves caught up in an event that transcends our understanding and surrounds us in a sea of divine love that belongs to the realm of mystery.

These forty meditations invite the reader to reflect on Christ’s walk on the Via Dolorosa, the path of suffering that a bruised and exhausted Jesus had to trudge from the place of his condemnation to the site of his crucifixion. It is a sobering journey. It is also a holy path toward God. With the author the reader can walk from sacred place to sacred place and feel the transforming power of the pres-ence
of Christ.

In this pilgrimage we encounter a tormented Judas, a bewildered Peter, a trans-formed Thomas, and two startled disciples on the road to Emmaus. The passion story leads believers and readers through the tragic disintegration of moral and spiritual claims to a fresh reaffirmation of the promise of transfiguration and res-urrection.

Paul Ciholas was born in France and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg, France. His publications reflect a wide range of interests in religion, philosophy, classical antiquity and patristic literature. He is the author of The Omphalos and the Cross: Pagans and Christians in Search of a Divine Center, published by Mercer University Press. He has taught at Campbell University in North Carolina, at the University of Kentucky, and at Kentucky State University where he served as Director of the Institute for Liberal Studies. He is retired and resides in Danville, Kentucky.

Titles of Related Interest

The Omphalos and the Cross: Pagans and Christians in Search of a Divine Center

Rhythms: Sermons for a Community of Faith and Learning

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