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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... soul was made of extremely fine particles of matter , and was therefore dissolved , along with the other matter of the human being , at physical death.17 Though in other ways Epicurus and Lucretius were dependent on Democritus , they ...
... soul ' ( psyche ) was not seen as a glorious immortal being that would enjoy life away from the body . Indeed , the ' soul ' is something other than the person's true ' self . The Iliad opens with this very distinction , with Achilles ...
... soul as a small human creature ( a ' homunculus ' , as it is often called ) hovering above the body of a dead warrior.90 Pindar , writing in the early sixth century , had already suggested that the soul was immortal.91 Pythagoras is ...
... soul over the body , and encourages people to regard the nurture of the soul as more important than the pleasures and pains of bodily existence . In addition , Plato's hopes for a better society in the present world were expressed in ...
... soul is imprisoned in the unsuitable body, forgetting its origin in the process. During the present life those with ... soul (and much else besides) were, in addition, severely modified by his equally influential pupil Aristotle. He took ...
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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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