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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... question of describing the entire worldview in each case . That would take many volumes for each segment . We shall focus on those aspects example . Sometimes contact would be made through a living The Historical Starting-Point.
... living hero tries to console the dead one by telling him that , as he was honoured like a god during his lifetime , so he now rules mightily in his new location . Achilles , weeping , will have none of it : 60 Never try to reconcile me ...
... living than with their actual present condition.71 One feature of these descriptions is of particular interest . Prior to the developed philosophical reflection that flowered in Plato , the ' soul ' ( psyche ) was not seen as a glorious ...
... living can supply : The cult of the dead seems to presuppose that the deceased is present and active at the place of burial , in the grave beneath the earth . The dead drink the pourings and indeed the blood — they are invited to come ...
... living of what they, the heroes, can still do.176 It might be objected that these are all literary figments, reflecting perhaps a popular belief or superstition but not giving real indications of things that ordinary people in the greco ...
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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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