The Resurrection of the Son of GodFortress Press, 2003 - 817 էջ Why did Christianity begin, and why did it take the shape it did? To answer this question -- which any historian must face -- renowned New Testament scholar N. T. Wright focuses on the key points: what precisely happened at Easter? What did the early Christians mean when they said that Jesus of Nazareth had been raised from the dead? What can be said today about this belief? This book, third in Wright's series Christian Origins and the Question of God, sketches a map of ancient beliefs about life after death, in both the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds. It then highlights the fact that the early Christians' belief about the afterlife belonged firmly on the Jewish spectrum, while introducing several new mutations and sharper definitions. This, together with other features of early Christianity, forces the historian to read the Easter narratives in the gospels, not simply as late rationalizations of early Christian spirituality, but as accounts of two actual events: the empty tomb of Jesus and his "appearances." How do we explain these phenomena? The early Christians' answer was that Jesus had indeed been bodily raised from the dead; that was why they hailed him as the messianic "son of God." No modern historian has come up with a more convincing explanation. Facing this question, we are confronted to this day with the most central issues of the Christian worldview and theology. |
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... Israel's Messiah, not to say that he is the incarnate Logos, the second person of the Trinity, the only-begotten son ... Israel's god and his purposes for Israel and the world, than with the bare fact (granted we could ever speak of such ...
... Israel's god , to certain human beings , of an ongoing life , not itself innate in the human make - up , which could then provide the human continuity , across an interim period , between the present bodily life and the future ...
... Israel , but they became all the more important through their association with the promises made to Abraham and his heirs , and through the events that had formed Israel into a people with a distinct sense of vocation and mission in the ...
... Israel , was the creator of the world ; that he was faithful to the covenant with Israel , and beyond that with the whole world ; and that , as such , he would be true to his word both to Israel and to the whole creation . How this ...
... Israel's god will reverse the actions of the wicked pagans, and raise the martyrs, and the teachers who kept Israel on course, to a glorious life. Simultaneously, he will raise their persecutors to a new existence: instead of remaining ...
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Resurrection in Paul Outside the Corinthian Correspondence | cxxviii |
Death and Beyond in the Old Testament | 3 |
The Key Passages | 11 |
Asleep with the Ancestors | 218 |
Jesus as Messiah and Lord | 315 |
General Issues in the Easter Stories | 336 |
Mark | 354 |
Luke | 373 |
John | 382 |
Easter and History | 397 |
i Cognitive Dissonance | 404 |
Matthew | 15 |
a Herod | 71 |
Other New Testament Writings | 94 |
NonCanonical Early Christian Texts | 111 |
The Apologists | 127 |
The Risen Jesus as the Son of | 418 |
iii Romans | 421 |
Bibliography | 431 |
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