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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... covenant god of Israel , was in fact God , the one and only being to whom the word appropriately refers . Most of their contemporaries did not see it like that ; not for nothing were the early Christians known as ' atheists'.2 Even New ...
... covenant . Moses held out to the people life and death , blessings and curses , and urged them to choose life — which meant , quite specifically , living in the promised land as opposed to being sent into the disgrace of exile.37 But ...
... covenant people were to renounce . 41 The principal scene which illustrates the point is the meeting between Saul and the dead Samuel.41 Saul himself , as part of his royal reforms , had forbidden necromancy , banishing the mediums and ...
... 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 would be worked out , what role a future ideal king might have in it ...
... covenant - renewing act of new creation . It is possible that the roots of the image are found in the promises of return from exile in Deuteronomy , where covenant renewal is a matter of new , god - given life in place of death , but ...
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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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