The Resurrection of God Incarnate

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-925746-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Whether or not Jesus rose bodily from the dead remains perhaps the most critical and contentious issue in Christianity. Until now, argument has centred upon the veracity of explicit New Testament accounts of the events following Jesus's crucifixion, often ending in deadlock. In Richard Swinburne's new approach, though, ascertaining the probable truth of the Resurrection requires a much broader approach to the nature of God and to the life and teaching of Jesus.

The Resurrection can only have occurred if God intervened in history to raise to life a man dead for thirty six hours. It is therefore crucial not only to weigh the evidence of natural theology for the existence of a God who has some reason so to intervene, but also to discover whether the life and teaching of Jesus show him to be uniquely the kind of person whom God would have raised. Swinburne argues that God has reason to interfere in history by becoming incarnate, and that it is highly improbable that we would find the evidence we do for the life and teaching of Jesus, as well as the evidence from witnesses to his empty tomb and later appearances, if Jesus was not God incarnate and did not rise from the dead.

The Resurrection of God Incarnate offers a clear and penetrating new perspective on Christianity's central mystery. It will be of great interest to philosophers, theologians, and all those trying to discover the truth about the Christian religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swinburne, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Historisch-Kritische Jesusforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Introduction

- Part I: General Background Evidence

- 1: Principles for weighing evidence

- 2: God's reasons for Incarnation

- 3: The life required of an incarnate God

- Part II: Prior Historical Evidence

- 4: The Historical Sources

- 5: The life and moral teaching of Jesus

- 6: Jesus implied his divinity

- 7: Jesus taught his atonement

- 8: Jesus founded a church

- Part III: Posterior Historical Evidence

- 9: The appearance of the risen Jesus

- 10: The empty tomb, and the observance of Sunday

- 11: Rival theories of what happened

- 12: The significance of the Resurrection

- Part IV: Conclusion

- 13: The Balance of Probability

- Appendix: Formalizing the argument

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

(Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford)