The Resurrection of the Son of GodFortress Press, 17 մրտ, 2003 թ. - 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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... YHWH 4. Conclusion: Resurrection within the Early Christian Worldview PART IV The Story of Easter 13 General Issues in the Easter Stories 1. Introduction 2. The Origin of the Resurrection Narratives (i) Sources and Traditions? (ii) The ...
... YHWH '), but nobody suggests that we therefore cannot investigate or understand those events historically. The tragic poetry of Jeremiah does not bar us from studying the events of 597 and 587 BC . We are not kept from writing history ...
... YHWH . Nor was it something that would happen to them again and again; it would be a single, unrepeatable event. Likewise, when the Christians spoke of the resurrection of Jesus they did not suppose it was something that happened every ...
... YHWH as so strong that the relationship they enjoyed with him in the present could not be broken even by death . Then , again at an uncertain point , a quite new idea came forth : the dead would be raised . Three positions thus emerge ...
... YHWH in the land of the living; I shall look upon mortals no more among the inhabitants of the world ... For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot praise you; those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. The living ...
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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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