The Resurrection of the Son of GodFortress Press, 2003 M03 17 - 817 páginas 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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... Hades, either by weeping or by lamentation.4 Similarly, Herodotus recounts the tale of Cambyses, son of Cyrus, who, warned by a dream, had his brother Smerdis killed on suspicion of plotting against him. A plot is nevertheless ...
... (22.247– 366). Only then does he return to the task of mourning the now avenged Patroclus. He addresses the dead man as now resident in Hades Shadows, Souls, or Potential Gods? (i) Introduction (ii) Witless Shadows in a Murky World?
... Hades . Afar do the spirits keep me aloof , the phantoms of men that have done with toils , neither suffer they me to join myself to them beyond the River , but vainly I wander through the wide - gated house of Hades . And give me thy ...
... Hades , why may they not embrace ? Is it really her , or only ' some phantom ' ( ti eidolon ) ? 55 This , she replies , is how it is with mortals after death : 54 For the sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together , but the ...
... Hades holds no comforts , no prospects , but only a profound sense of loss.69 With the single exception ( invented for dramatic purposes ? ) of Teiresias , they have lost their wits and much else besides . They remain essentially ...
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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 |