The Resurrection Life – A Reading List for Easter!

[easyazon_link identifier=”0800626796″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]The Resurrection of the Son of God[/easyazon_link]]

N.T. Wright

One of the most important contemporary reflections on the meaning of the resurrection…

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 his belief?

This book, third is 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.

[easyazon_link identifier=”0814684513″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Is This All There Is?: On Resurrection and Eternal Life[/easyazon_link]

Gerhard Lohfink

Is the Christian hope for resurrection still alive or has it become tired? How can we talk about the Resurrection today? Gerhard Lohfink takes up the question of death and resurrection in this new book. He argues against the dazzling array of today’s ideas and expectations and seeks his answers in Scripture, the Christian tradition, and human reason. With his characteristically gentle but clear language, he reveals the power of Christian resurrection, showing it is not about events that lie in the distant future but rather occurrences incomprehensively close to us. They were long since begun and they will embrace us fully in our own death..

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IMAGE CREDIT: Detail from the cover of [easyazon_link identifier=”0664262643″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]The Sign and the Sacrifice: The Meaning of the Cross and Resurrection[/easyazon_link] by Rowan Williams.