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,...

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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,...

Stott versus Calvin on the Saving Efficacy of Christ’s Resurrection

I’m a huge fan of John Stott’s The Cross of Christ, but I think a weakness of the book is its relative neglect of Christ’s resurrection. Not only does Stott have very little treatment of...

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (4)

I Corinthians 15:45: “Thus it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being;’ the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.” Richard Gaffin unpacks the meaning of “life-giving S/spirit” here: “Resurrection is here nothing...

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (3)

George Eldon Ladd: Jesus’ resurrection was not a return to physical, earthly life; it was the emergence within history of the life of the world to come. I Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus (Eerdmans,...

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (2)

Here is a great one from Lesslie Newbigin: The resurrection cannot be accommodated in any way of understanding the world except one of which it is the starting point. Some happenings, which come to our...