Lenten Reflections: From the Desert to the Resurrection

Kirkus Review:

A scholarly treatise on Lent and the nature of Christian redemption.

Lent, stretching for the roughly six weeks from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday and commemorating the interval between the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and his resurrection from the dead, is the focal point of Lopes’ inspirational debut. But the book’s title is happily misleading. What Lopes offers here goes far deeper than “reflections”: he opens his book with a searching and quite scholarly history of the ...