Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction: Discipleship and Suffering | p. 1 |
The View through a Womanist Cultural Lens | p. 11 |
Womanist Theology | p. 12 |
Rethinking Traditional African American Piety | p. 18 |
Jesus Christ | p. 18 |
The Cross | p. 23 |
Suffering | p. 27 |
Discipleship | p. 31 |
Conclusion | p. 33 |
Perspectives on Discipleship and Suffering in Mark | p. 39 |
Suffering as Requirement for and Consequence of Discipleship | p. 40 |
Suffering as Necessary for Discipleship | p. 43 |
Dei in Mark 8:31 as Divine Necessity | p. 45 |
Joanna Dewey | p. 45 |
Ernest Best | p. 46 |
Augustine Stock | p. 48 |
Morna Hooker | p. 49 |
Jack Kingsbury | p. 51 |
A Womanist Perspective on Dei as Divine Necessity | p. 52 |
The Interpretive Priority of Mark 8:31-10:52 | p. 53 |
Robert Tannehill | p. 53 |
Werner Kelber | p. 55 |
A Womanist Perspective on the Interpretive Priority of Mark 8:31-10:52 | p. 56 |
Old Testament Allusions as Explanations of Suffering | p. 56 |
Sean Freyne | p. 56 |
Norman Perrin | p. 58 |
Joel Marcus | p. 60 |
A Womanist Perspective on Old Testament Allusions as Explanations of Suffering | p. 61 |
Suffering as a Consequence of Discipleship | p. 62 |
Ched Myers | p. 62 |
Mary Ann Tolbert | p. 63 |
Donald H. Juel | p. 65 |
Brian K. Blount | p. 66 |
A Womanist Perspective on Suffering as a Consequence of Discipleship | p. 67 |
Conclusion | p. 68 |
A Model for Womanist Reading | p. 71 |
A Sociolinguistic Model | p. 72 |
Using a Sociolinguistic Model for Womanist Biblical Interpretation | p. 76 |
The Macrointerpersonal Component | p. 78 |
The Microinterpersonal Component | p. 81 |
Conclusion | p. 83 |
Establishing Mark's Social Context | p. 85 |
The Provenance of Mark | p. 87 |
Latinisms | p. 87 |
Use of Hebrew and Aramaic | p. 87 |
Explanation of Jewish Traditions | p. 88 |
Familiarity with the Old Testament | p. 89 |
Ministry to the Gentiles | p. 89 |
Mark's Social Location | p. 91 |
Honor and Shame: A Symbolic Order | p. 95 |
A Cultural Context for Reading Mark's Gospel | p. 100 |
Conclusion | p. 107 |
Discipleship and the Cross in Mark | p. 109 |
The Field of Discourse | p. 111 |
Mark 8:31-33 | p. 111 |
Mark 8:34-37 | p. 127 |
Discipleship | p. 130 |
Relationship between Discipleship and Ministry | p. 131 |
Is There Agony in This Ministry? | p. 132 |
Self-Denial in Mark | p. 133 |
Taking Up the Cross in Mark | p. 137 |
The Relationship between Denying Oneself and Taking Up the Cross | p. 138 |
Mark 8:38 | p. 139 |
Conclusion | p. 143 |
The Tenor of Discourse | p. 144 |
Conclusion | p. 158 |
The Mode of Discourse | p. 159 |
Cross as Consequence | p. 162 |
Discerning the Call | p. 165 |
Abbreviations | p. 169 |
Notes | p. 171 |
Bibliography | p. 197 |
Index | p. 209 |
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