Abstract
This article explores the redemptive significance of the patience of Jesus. It examines how the patient suffering of Jesus is uniquely manifested in Jesus' life of obedience, crucifixion, and burial, in order to shed light on how God brings about redemption in a world marked by great suffering and evil. The article uses two novels, Peter De Vries's The Blood of the Lamb and Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety, in order to examine how it is precisely the patience of Jesus that provides the possibility for redemption in the midst of awful situations of suffering and grief.
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