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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... ( verse 24 ) . This simple , unadorned statement , at first sight merely a gently euphemistic way of marking the passing of a devout man , gave rise to enormous later speculation . What had happened to Enoch ? Where was he ? Had he ...
... ( verse 2 ) , his portion and cup ( verse 5 ) , the one who gives him counsel in the secret places of his heart ( verse 7 ) . The same question can be raised in connection with Psalm 22. The Psalmist is clearly in deep trouble , physical ...
... verse 24 refers , not to an event that will take place later on within the present life , but to a state which will obtain after the present life of being guided by God's counsel . This is confirmed by verse 26 , where , with echoes of ...
... Verse 3 offers two parallel similes to describe the final state of the resurrected righteous (or, just conceivably, of a sub-set of them). They are denoted as 'the wise', hammaskilim, and as 'those who turn many to righteousness', or ...
... verse 3 indicate , not so much that the righteous and the wise will be shining and twinkling like stars , but that ... Verses 32-5 of chapter 11 describe what happens next , as some Judaeans compromise with the pagan invader and others ...
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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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