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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... Suffering ? ( iv ) The Basis of Future Hope 4. Awakening the Sleepers ( i ) Introduction ( ii ) Daniel 12 : The Sleepers Wake , the Wise Shine ( iii ) The Servant and the Dust - Dwellers : Isaiah ( iv ) On the Third Day : Hosea ( v ) ...
... Suffering and Comfort ( iii ) 2 Corinthians 3 : 1-6 : 13 : the Apostolic Apologia ( iv ) 2 Corinthians 6 : 14–9 : 15 : Fragments ? ( v ) 2 Corinthians 10–13 : Weakness and Power 4. Conclusion : Resurrection at Corinth 7 Resurrection in ...
... suffering the pains of the present life ) and ' excellent ' , these epithets seem to have more to do with the respect due to the dead from the living than with their actual present condition.71 One feature of these descriptions is of ...
... Suffering ? Something more definite can be said about Psalm 73 at least.92 One of the classic biblical complaints about the apparent injustices of life ( the wicked and arrogant always seem to get away with it ) , this Psalm takes its ...
... suffering maskilim being raised to shine like the stars, while their persecutors receive everlasting contempt; these are essentially the same. Any second- Temple Jew who pondered the book would find in 12:2–3 not a new and outlandish ...
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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 |