So for the New Testament, the resurrection of Jesus is his rising and mastery over death moving into an eschatological form of life and is appearing then to the disciples. Because if it did take place, how would you ever know? E. But the resurrection of Jesus from the dead into an eschatological form of life is also not what the new testament means by the resurrection. Eschatological form of life?Īnd there is a sense in which the new testament talks about the end of the ages have come through the resurrection of Jesus Chris because that marks the change to the new age. It is the moving over, a transfer, into eternity. A form of life in which death, disease, sorrow, pain, no longer is part of the experience. And, h I don't know a better word to use than the word "eschatological." It is rising to an eschatological form of life. It is, rather, a resurrection to a new form of life. The resurrection is not resuscitation to life. Jairus' daughter and the son of the widow of Nain. There are in the gospels three other people who are resuscitated from death: Lazarus, who else? C. Now, we don't want to, thirdly, define the resurrection as Jesus coming back to life again. In fact, they inclined towards another view: Someone stole the body. And, h when we think about how the first reaction to the empty tomb, as we realize, that, they just thought there could be another reason for the tomb being empty, other than the resurrection. The empty tomb is, once again, a result of the resurrection, but it isn't the resurrection. We also don't want to confuse the resurrection with the empty tomb. We don't want to confuse then the resurrection with the rise of faith in the disciples. Of course, if you have a bias against the supernatural then the last piece of historical evidence you can get to is the rise in the faith of the disciples. The rise of faith is the effect of the resurrection. Well, there was a rise in faith in the disciples, but to interpret that as the resurrection is to confuse the effect and the cause. The rise of faith in the disciples?įor instance, Rudolf Bultmann talks about the resurrection, and what he means by that is the rise in faith in the disciples. And yet when we talk about the word "resurrection," the term resurrection is far from a self evident word. It is the sine qua non, that without which there would be no Christian faith. There is no Christianity without the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Without the resurrection, we would not be here. We're not a Bach memorial society who come to celebrate his great music, or a Jesus society in the sense of celebrating a great man who died, unfortunately, a terrible death. We want to talk today about the resurrection of Jesus for the Christian faith is not a society who of people remember a dead hero.
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