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 ) . It has here a purely heuristic value . Despite the anxiety of some , I have continued for the most part to write ' god ' with a small ' g ' . This is not an irreverence . It is to remind myself , as well as the reader ...
... question, but a pressing one for many visitors—why are different groups of Christians still squabbling about who owns the place? These puzzles, though, do not noticeably affect the appeal of the place. Despite archaeological, historical ...
... question of 'what actually happened' only begin to be felt important with John Locke. 9 For much of the present investigation, the 'question of god' introduces itself in the form: what did the early Christians believe about the god of ...
... questions into which the principal question divides : what did the early Christians think had happened to Jesus , and what can we say about the plausibility of those beliefs ? The first of these is the subject of Parts II , III and IV ...
... question. First, what sort of historical task are we undertaking in talking about the resurrection at all? This introductory chapter attempts to clear the necessary ground on this point. Without it, some readers would object that I was ...
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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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