Sentences with phrase «death and resurrection appearances»

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The death and resurrection cluster includes the theme of the atonement and various elements of the resurrection and of the post-resurrection appearances.

It looks much more as though these texts caught the eye, and were regarded as prophetic, only because it was already known, on the testimony of witnesses of the Resurrection appearances, that Jesus was actually encountered as the living Lord on the third day after his death.

It seems that the earliest preaching of the resurrection made no attempt to describe the appearances, but rather proclaimed the fact of the resurrection as God's reversal of the disgrace of crucifixion: «the death of Jesus is interpreted as Israel's No to the proclamation of Jesus and the resurrection as God's Yes, his validation of Jesus» message.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

Therefore, it seems possible that this appearance of Jesus might be His appearance to another group of people who were also waiting for the once - for - all sacrifice to be completed, namely, those who believed in the coming Messiah, but who died before His death and resurrection.

I have already indicated the elements which belonged to this event as you and I look back to it: the appearance of the man Jesus, his life and death and resurrection, the coming of the Spirit, the creation of the church.

Faith can be expressed by adding an appearance after death and burial or it can be expressed by remembrance of Jesus» repeated promise of a resurrection.

This «kerygmatic center» is the «in spite of» and the «how much more» with which we «decipher the signs of the resurrection under the contrary appearance of death.

Worship of God in Jesus» name is not cultic in this sense precisely because, as response to God's presence, definitively in the life, death, and resurrection appearances of Jesus, it does not seek to evoke God's presence but to celebrate it as an already given gift.