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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... body . 89 Plato ( and before him Socrates ; we cannot here discuss the Socrates of history and the philosopher of Platonic faith ) was working at a time when a certain amount of development in the same direction was already noticeable ...
... body or another , according to the theory of transmigration.152 But the idea of the soul going off to where the stars are , and in some way almost being identified with the stars , became popular across the hellenistic world.153 This ...
... body and on to either bliss or torment : All good things , and joy and honour are prepared for and written down for the souls of those who died in righteousness ... The spirits of those who died in righteousness shall live and rejoice ...
... body is a prison in which the spirit is confined , that spirit which has been breathed by God into humankind . Indeed , the body is a tomb or coffin for the soul ; the soma / sema ( body / tomb ) pun of standard Platonic exposition ...
... body ? It does appear that in chapters 8 and 9 the author , meditating on Wisdom and urging his readers to seek her , does use expressions that have more in common with Philo than with the biblical tradition . Wisdom 8:13 speaks of ...
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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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