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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... creation , a new Genesis . As we shall see , the Christians developed their own fresh metaphorical usages , which likewise referred to concrete states of affairs . But most of the time those Jews and pagans who spoke of resurrection ...
... creation itself . We should separate out these levels neither in our own reading of Isaiah , nor in our assessment of how the book would have been read in the second - Temple period.144 ( iv ) On the Third Day : Hosea Behind these ...
... creation : The hand of YHWH came upon me , and he brought me out by the spirit of YHWH and set me down in the middle of a valley ; it was full of bones . He led me all around them ; there were very many lying in the valley , and they ...
... creation to accomplish it . This is where the solid hope of the earlier period ( hope for nation , family and land ) joins up with the emerging belief in the creator's faithfulness even beyond the grave . This coming together of ( what ...
... creation itself , which was the basis of the normal ancient Israelite celebration of life in the present , bodily life in YHWH's good land . This robust affirmation of the goodness of life in YHWH's world and land is what is called into ...
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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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