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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... A Primary Sources B Secondary Literature Indexes Index of Ancient Sources 1. Old. 1. Bible 2. Other Jewish Texts 3. Other Early Christian and Related Texts 4. Pagan Texts This summary of several complex arguments has not , I.
... pagans ' for the same reason as most ancient historians do : not intending it as in any way a term of abuse , but finding it the most convenient way to designate a large number of otherwise disparate peoples . The term is of course etic ...
... pagan and Jewish observers of this new movement found it highly anomalous : it was not like a club , not even like a religion ( no sacrifices , no images , no oracles , no garlanded priests ) , certainly not like a racially based cult ...
... pagan worldview or a contemporary non - Christian world - view no such conclusion would be reached . Those Romans who supposed that a ' Nero redivivus ' was alive and kicking certainly had no thoughts of interpreting this phenomenon ...
... Pagans denied this possibility ; some Jews affirmed it as a long - term future hope ; virtually all Christians ... paganism . Without looking ahead to the answer supplied by Acts 17 , we must ask : what would someone in Ephesus , Athens ...
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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 |