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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... context provides only a fuzzy setting , in which ' resurrection ' could mean a variety of different things ; ( 2 ) that the earliest Christian writer , Paul , did not believe in bodily resurrection , but held a ' more spiritual ' view ...
... world.24 It is therefore vital to understand the context into which one of the most central features of his proclamation was addressed . Indeed , this point could be widened: the first-century Judaism within which Christianity.
... context created by these three elements, we may understand, and try to correlate, the answers given to the implicit worldview questions in relation to the dead: who are they, where are they, what (if anything) is wrong, what (if ...
... context within which to understand the early Christian stories about Jesus eating and drinking with his followers some time after his death.166 Whatever we say about that — and we shall come to it much later — it is clear at once that ...
... context which some have suspected behind the Scheintod motif in the hellenistic novels is quite explicit : Apuleius is clearly drawing on the mystery religions , particularly Isis - worship . The book incorporates a retelling of the old ...
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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 |