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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... empty tomb or of ' seeing ' the risen Jesus ; ( 4 ) that the resurrection stories in the gospels are late inventions designed to bolster up this second - stage belief ; ( 5 ) that such ' seeings ' of Jesus as may have taken place are ...
... tomb empty , and what account can be given of the sightings of the apparently risen Jesus ? I shall argue that the best historical explanation is the one which inevitably raises all kinds of theological questions : the tomb was indeed empty ...
... Jesus' resurrection it has been suggested that we should look for parallels to, and perhaps even derivations from ... empty tomb; exactly what, according to some, we find in many ancient writings, not least the novels that emerged in ...
... tomb and finds it empty . The scene is so interesting that we must set it out in full : Hurrying in the dark , the tomb robbers had been careless in shutting the tomb . Chaereas waited for dawn to visit the tomb , ostensibly to bring ...
... empty tomb , with a mourner going at dawn , finding the stones moved away , the rumour spreading quickly , and people eventually going in and finding the tomb empty . Whatever other parallels there may or may not be between pagan ...
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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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