Gospel imperatives

Direct commands from Jesus, given to and about women + Mary Magdalene, at the tomb that first Easter Sunday

Gentle reader,

Command is not the predominant genre represented in scripture, but when scripture speaks in the imperative, theology is rightly interested in those commands and seeks to take them with great seriousness.

We write whole books on the ten commandments, and Protestant theology often sees Jesus’s direct commands as constitutive of the sacrament…