Sentences with phrase «christian meaning of resurrection»

(ENTIRE BOOK) A helpful examination of the Christian meaning of resurrection — including the difference between belief in Jesus» resurrection as an historical event, versus resurrection as an expression of faith in the risen Christ..

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When my 7 year old asked about the Christian meaning of Easter, I explained the story of the crucifixion and resurrection.

But what would be the use of the Incarnation, the Cross, the Resurrection, if Christians were meant to be and to act just like the others?

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

Even assuming that Jesus» grave was known, which is by no means certain, it seems very possible that neither party was interested in it, or regarded the truth of Easter as dependent on it, until long after the event: until the period of the controversies reflected in Matthew, which would not arise until the empty tomb had become important in Christian thought about the Resurrection.

When the divine meaning of the event is made to depend upon views of Jesus» divinity and when the presence of Christ in the church is made to depend upon a belief in the Resurrection, we cut the solid ground out from under the whole Christian position; we invest the purely speculative with an importance it does not possess and rely on it to perform a function it can not perform; and we open the door to discord and division.

While he is surely right in affirming that the God of Israel and of the Christian faith is identified by temporal events such as the Exodus and the Resurrection, as well as by Jesus addressing Him as Father (which in turn identifies Jesus as Son), this does not clarify the meaning of the predicate «God» as it is applied to the God of Israel.

Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»

Its effect upon one who takes it seriously is well expressed by Paul, in a passage where he has defined the meaning of the Christian life precisely in terms of the Gospel, as sharing Christ's sufferings, being conformed to His death, and experiencing the power of His resurrection.

And the first matter for study is the meaning of resurrection in the case of the Lord in whom Christians find both the decisive disclosure of God and also the empowering from God which they say has brought to them «newness of life».

To the first Christians, the resurrection of Christ meant two things principally.

It is true that both the gospels and the speeches of Peter and Paul in Acts give important testimony as to what the apostles taught about the Christian life and proclaimed about the meaning of Jesus» own life, death, and resurrection; yet both the gospels and Acts were written, not by apostles, but by later disciples, and their evidence on particular points stands in need of confirmation, if possible, from the apostles themselves.

But for the Christian «resurrection» means also that this same Jesus, in the Spirit which is central to what I have called «the stream of influence» which the total event released into the world, is also effectual in the continuing life of men and women, as they are brought to respond to him.

Of course the true sign that is given all Christians is Christ's death and resurrection, and so we must say that Matthew has in a sense rightly interpreted the full meaning of Jesus» words, but in such a way as to make it harder to get at the original sense of the passagOf course the true sign that is given all Christians is Christ's death and resurrection, and so we must say that Matthew has in a sense rightly interpreted the full meaning of Jesus» words, but in such a way as to make it harder to get at the original sense of the passagof Jesus» words, but in such a way as to make it harder to get at the original sense of the passagof the passage.

We must take this question into account as we discuss the meaning of the «resurrection of Jesus», just because the latter belongs to the faith of the Christian, and is not an empirical fact that can be studied objectively by Christian and non-Christian alike.

Yet, as Bishop Spong points out, if it was a gay male who taught the Christian church what the love of God means, who defined grace for all people; and who, tortured and rejected as he must have felt, came to understand what resurrection means as God's vindicating act, then in a sense we do owe him a debt of gratitude.

By a «larger» self, I mean a large - hearted self, images of which I derive from the Christian story, such as the life, teachings, death and resurrection of Jesus, interpreted and reinterpreted throughout the tradition.

The debate among Christians about the meaning and nature of the resurrection of Jesus has moved from the appeal to inerrant scripture, which was regarded by most until a century ago as being quite sufficient, to the arena where the tools of historical and literary criticism are regarded as legitimate.

If Christians wish to continue to use the idiom of resurrection as an expression of hope, then there is no alternative but to keep on attempting to make clear what it means and does not mean.

In the first chapter we opened up a discussion of what is meant by the term «resurrection», and found that this quickly led us to the traditional conception of the resurrection of Jesus, a view often known as «bodily resurrection», which, with minor variations, has dominated Christian tradition for about eighteen centuries.

Since the Jewish belief in the general resurrection was the necessary forerunner for the Christian affirmation of the resurrection of Jesus, we shall turn first to the meaning for our day of the words in the Nicene Creed, «I look for the resurrection of the dead».

A more extended discussion of the meaning of resurrection for the Christian today will come at the end of this book.

Nevertheless, most of these persons would probably agree with the recent statement of a contemporary Christian philosopher that «Christian belief means accepting the resurrection of Christ, and therefore it seems to involve believing in at least one miracle.

While using a conceptuality largely framed by process philosophy, it addresses for the most part the historically contingent elements within the Christian tradition: the biblical witness to Israel and to Jesus, his role as the Christ, the meaning of his death and resurrection, and the implications of the Christian proclamation of the Trinity.

From this it follows that the key to the interpretation of the Christian message is the meaning of the resurrection of Jesus.

In the above we have spoken of what the experience of Jesus» resurrection meant to the early Christians.

For if our faith in the resurrection has any vitality or validity, it is nothing less than the conviction that there is even now present and knowable within the Christian fellowship through «the Holy Spirit, which is given unto us,» the full concrete personal meaning of «Jesus Christ and him crucified.»

What meaning, then, can the resurrection of Jesus — the central Christian message — have for moderns with an intelligible religious outlook?

For Christians, ultimate meaning — God — is understood in the person of Jesus Christ, in his life, death and resurrection, and in the Holy Spirit which allows us to see God present with us today.

Now what I mean is this: in the three verses listed above, the apostle Paul makes it clear that the Corinthian Christians he is addressing HAD «received» and «believed» his gospel message of Christ's death and resurrection (cf. 1 Cor.

The cord of resurrection means Christians begin a new life in the here - and - now.

The portrayal of Messiah as victim threatens to sever the basic continuity we have wanted to maintain between suffering and redemption (or to use Christian imagery, between cross and resurrection) To have redemptive meaning, the cross must answer the victims who whirl here in torment, for, in the Holocaust, the world becomes Golgotha turned on itself, «one great mount of crucifixion, with thousands of severed Jewish heads strewn below like so many thieves» (Roskie, p. 268)

The fact of the resurrection is central and determinative for our thinking about the meaning of Christian faith.

This too is a nature - rite — it is the Christian spring festival — transfused with historic meaning in its reminiscences of the passion and resurrection of Jesus, but most of all permeated with religious immediacy and exalted hope.

The verse has to be read within the entire context of scripture, including how Jesus lived and other things he said (notably — he who is without sin cast the first stone) to recognize that that verse is not now, nor has it ever been, interpreted to mean that Christians are under OT law upon Christ's resurrection.

«It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics [of cosmology]... If [non-Christians] find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Being a Christian means that you know what Jesus Christ did on the cross and, you are trusting Him to forgive you, and trusting in His death, burial, and resurrection to be enough to cleanse you of your sin.