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Original Title:	The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God)
ISBN:	0800626796 (ISBN13: 9780800626792)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Christian Origins and the Question of God #3
Literary Awards:	Michael Ramsey Prize (2005)

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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 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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Title	:	The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God #3)
Author	:	N.T. Wright
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 817 pages
Published	:	March 17th 2003 by Fortress Press (first published March 1st 2003)
Categories	:	Religion. Theology. Christianity. History. Christian. Nonfiction

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Hard to say anything about this book without using such terms as classic, monumental, tour de force, and coup de grace. It takes the issue in its teeth and wont let go until the issue is dealt with and lies still in the grass.

This is Wright's third of what will be 5 (at least for now) volumes in his "Christian Origins and the Question of God" series. When I see the size of these things, I get an overwhelming sense of stupidity and laziness. I don't think I can even thoughtfully read as much as he has written. This volume tackles the doctrine of resurrection, and does so extensively. Wright analyzes the Christian belief about resurrection in the context of ancient Pagan and Jewish beliefs, and he attacks the notion

The most comprehensive study on the resurrection to date. Wright surveys all the relevant Greek and Jewish background material as well as the early Christian writers to try to get to the bottom of the questions: Why did early Christianity take the shape that it did? What event made pious Jews switch their day of worship from Saturday to Sunday? What made their theology take the form it did? Why did people claim that Jesus rose from the dead in the first place? What did they mean by it? This book

In a league of its own, marvellous.

Excellent read; deserves a fuller review later (will try to get to it).

Wow!, again. This was one of the best Christmas presents I have received from my wife. (Especially since I had to go buy and read NTPG and JVG before starting this book.Wright brought home to me once again the absolute necessity of understanding the 2nd Temple mindset. In that frame of reference, resurrection can ONLY mean getting a new body.. not 'life after death', but life after life-after-death!Of particular interest was his development of the sufficient and necessary causes in relationship

Wright begins his work on the resurrection of Jesus Christ by reminding his readers that:"Proposing that Jesus of Nazareth was raised from the dead was just as controversial nineteen hundred years ago as it is today. The discovery that dead people stayed dead was not first made by the philosophers of the Enlightenment. The historian who wishes to make such a proposal is therefore compelled to challenge a basic and fundamental assumptionnot only, as is sometimes suggested, the position of