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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... language the other way round : a heavy sleeper is ' dead to the world ' . Sometimes , as in Ezekiel 37 , Jewish writers used ' resurrection ' language as a metaphor for concrete political events , in that case the return of the Jews ...
... language was to refer, literally, to a concrete state of affairs. One of the main questions of this book is whether the early Christians, who were in so many ways cheerful and eager innovators, used the language of resurrection like ...
... language of ghosts , spirits and the like was inappropriate , and for which their previous beliefs about life after death , and resurrection in particular , had not prepared them . Take away either of these historical conclusions , and ...
... language of second - Temple Judaism . In addition , since this ( still recognizably Jewish ) claim was quickly advanced within the wider non - Jewish world of the first century , it is important also to map out where the claim belonged ...
... language over the succeeding centuries , have recognized any of these as constituting exceptions to their striking and specific denial of ' resurrection ' ? ( ii ) Eating with the Dead 161 The list of possible exceptions to the rule ...
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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 |
1117 | 393 |