Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (10)

“Take away Easter and Karl Marx was probably right to accuse Christianity of ignoring problems of the material world. Take it away and Freud was probably right to say Christianity is wish-fulfillment. Take it away...

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (9)

Milligan on the (circular) relationship between the fact of the resurrection and its theological meaning: “The Preaching of the Resurrection of our Lord by His Apostles was not simply a display of evidence. It was...

The Risen Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King

In my study on the resurrection, I have focused in on the question: how does the resurrection of Christ serve his mediatorial offices of prophet, priest, and king? I have become convinced that the resurrection...

What was the first thing Jesus did on Easter morning?

Apparently, he folded the grave cloth over his head. John 20:5-7: And stooping to look in, (the other disciple) saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. 6Then Simon Peter came,...

A new kind of reality

I just read through each of the gospels’ accounts of Jesus’ resurrection and was very struck by how Jesus’ resurrected life is portrayed. One the one hand, the physicality of Jesus’ body and the continuity...

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (8)

“If the resurrection be fact, why not the incarnation? It is possible to isolate virtually all the other insignia of majesty in the synoptic tradition and pick them off one by one: the virgin birth,...

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (7)

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (6)

After showing how different bodily resurrection was from other first century ideas about life after death, N.T Wright addresses the charge that belief in the resurrection is out-dated and pre-modern: “(It is) wrong to imply...

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (5)

This is a startling statement, the more you think about it, but seems to me justified on the basis of Acts 2:30-31 (King), Hebrews 7:16 (Priest), various verses in John, such as 8:28, 14:26, 16:7,...