Inconspicuous Incarnation in the Gospel of Mark
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2026
Going beyond the philosophical horizon of the foregoing, the Epilogue attends to two defining absences at work in the Gospel of Mark, regularly regarded as the first of its genre: first, the centurion sees Jesus die and, on the basis of this death, avows that Jesus is God’s son, yet seemingly without empirical support; second, the best manuscripts end the text without narrating any resurrection appearances, a scandal to early readers and to some contemporary commentators. The theological development of aletheism argues that these two absences are Mark’s way of capturing the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy: “Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.”
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