Endings: Invitations to Discipleship

In literary works, endings are critical; an author’s conclusion to a story or an argument is intended to shape our understanding of the whole.

In this engaging and deceptively simple study, a companion volume to her much-praised Beginnings, Morna D. Hooker explores the final pages of each of the four Gospels and the book of Acts, and attempts to uncover the specific messages that the Evangelists hoped to convey to their readers.

Nearly all of the Old Testament books have forward-looking conclusions. What, then, is the significance of the way in which these New Testament documents end?

Morna D. Hooker is is Lady Margaret’s Professor Emerita in the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Robinson College. Her recent books include: From Adam to Christ: Essays on St Paul (1990); A Commentary on The Gospel According to St Mark (1992), Not Ashamed of the Gospel (1994), The Signs of a Prophet (1997), and Paul: A Short Introduction (2003). She is editor of Black’s New Testament Commentaries, and has been joint editor of the Journal of Theological Studies since 1985.