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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... future resurrection ; ( d ) a way of describing resurrection itself . The first , it seems , is what Adam and Eve might have gained in Genesis 3 ; the second is the position of Plato ; the third emerges , as we shall see later , in ...
... future, can scarcely be treated as a precise or exact description.112 The two clauses are similes: the passage predicts that the righteous will be like stars, not that they will turn into stars, nor even that they will be located among ...
... resurrection, while Greeks believed in immortality. Like most half- truths ... future life, with only a few texts coming out strongly for a different view ... resurrection or at least knew that it was standard teaching. Comparatively few ...
... resurrection ; it seems more than likely that they followed a quite strict interpretation of the Old Testament , and denied any significant future life at all . But , as will become apparent , the contemporary instinct to see the ...
... resurrection at some future date ) , here , quite clearly , there is only ... resurrection belief into the language of pagan philosophy ; it looks as though the ... future resurrection , while ' their bones will rest ... and their spirits ...
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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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