Discussion questions for Monday, October 29 meeting of Book Club:

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1. What does this statement mean to you? "Good Friday is not simply the dismal but necessary prelude to the joy of Easter, although I'm afraid many Christians think of it that way."

2. Why -- if it was -- was Holy Week and the Crucifixion necessary?

3. Neuhaus intends the book to be "an exploration into mystery." What does that mean? What does it not mean

4. For what three groups of readers did Neuhaus write the book?

5. The following is one of the book's most controversial statements: If what Christians say about Good Friday is true, then it is, quite simply, the truth about everything" (p. xi). What does it mean? Why is it controversial?

6. "It is finished," Jesus said from the cross. It is finished, but it is not over. To accompany him to his end is to discover our beginning" What do you think Neuhaus means by that statement? What (if anything) does it mean to you?