Moses Maimonides (1135 - 1204), the most famous Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages, included
the doctrine of the resurrection as the last of his Thirteen Principles of Faith — «I believe with perfect faith that there will be a resurrection of the dead at the time when it shall please the Creator.»
Not exact matches
The age - long and still influential Christian
doctrine of bodily
resurrection thus goes back to primitive Hebrew behaviorism, which always conceived soul
as a function
of the material organism and never, like Greek philosophy, conceived immortality
as escape from the imprisoning flesh.
The
doctrine of resurrection is that man's destiny is to die but one day to be raised again to life, not
as a disembodied spirit, but with a body — usually the original one possessed during life.
I have to agree with the
resurrection and there fore the word
of God, but what issues aside from these issues (assuming you disagree with these minor issues), what issues
as doctrine make the new testament something that would not be acceptable, considering that the issue is sin?
This is not gruesome:
as Addis and Arnold wrote in relation to relics in their Catholic Dictionary, because
of the
doctrine of the
resurrection of the body «Christians have lost that horror
of dead bodies which was characteristic
of the heathen».
Nygren gives an important suggestion about the history
of doctrine when he says that the Church Fathers were saved from falling completely into a Greek pattern
of thought by the three biblical assertions
of Creation, Incarnation, and
Resurrection.32 But rather than conclude,
as Nygren does, that these themes require us to reject all metaphysics, why not say that they require us to reconsider our metaphysics?
He emphasizes the affirmation
of the goodness
of the material world, the refusal to regard the body
as evil, and the significance
of the
resurrection doctrine in opposition to the Greek views
of the immortality
of the soul.
The
resurrection life, when it comes in fullness, is the life
of fellowship with God at the feast
of Is 25:6 - 8, which he quotes in 1 Cor 15
as being the source
of his
resurrection doctrine.
He's developing an argument about the significance
of the
doctrine of the
resurrection by discussing the logical consequence
of denying it (verses 12 - 19), going on a very typical Pauline digression almost
as if he's overcome by joy at the positive truth and has to triumphantly proclaim it (verses 20 - 28) then finally returning to drive home the practical point again (verses 29 - 35).
But when I have seen this, my next task is to let the book's message universalize itself in my mind
as God's own teaching or
doctrine (to use the word that Calvin loved) now addressed to humankind in general and to me in particular within the frame
of reality created by the death,
resurrection, and present dominion
of Jesus Christ.
It upholds core
doctrines such
as the Incarnation, God
as Trinity, Christ's physical
resurrection, and the necessity
of Christ for salvation.
The biblical expression for this action is the
resurrection of the body, thus preserving the
doctrine of the unity
of man, and rejecting the conception
of the soul
as a spiritual entity in man which is naturally endowed with the capacity to persist beyond death.
Anyway from Wiki A fourth point
of conflict, specifically religious, involved different interpretations
of the Torah and how to apply it to current Jewish life, with the Sadducees recognizing only the Written Torah and rejecting
doctrines such
as the Oral Torah and the
Resurrection of the Dead.
Debate at Fuller has never touched such major orthodox
doctrines as the deity
of Christ, the
resurrection, virgin birth, or second coming.
Just
as in the gospels the most important thing is the incarnation, death and
resurrection, while the how
of the incarnation, the virgin birth, lies in the hinterland; so also in respect to the
doctrine of Scripture, while inspiration is
as clearly taught
as the virgin birth, it lies rather in the hinterland.»
It deals with Christology and the
doctrine of God,
as well
as prayer, the
resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task
of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition
of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy
as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns
of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view
of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»
In these terms, the proposition that Jesus lives on subjectively is the supreme instance
of some more general proposition
as to individual survival after death: to reach a decision
as to this supreme instance one would first have to investigate the general concept
of resurrection, which lies beyond our present task.25 It must here suffice to answer that these proposals neither affirm nor deny the
doctrine that both Jesus and the «souls
of the righteous» live on subjectively.
We shall now trace the path taken in Christian thought by the hope
of a general
resurrection, a
doctrine, which, far from being unique to Christianity, has been shared by Jew and Muslim, and which, in the first place,
as we have seen, was partly borrowed from Persian Zoroastrianism.
In John Baillie's widely acclaimed modern classic, And the Life Everlasting, the biblical
doctrine of the
resurrection has almost moved out
of sight, being replaced by an emphasis on eternal life
as a quality
of life which transcends death.
There was a very real possibility that it could have come to replace the Jewish
doctrine of resurrection completely
as the idiom
of Christian hope.
First
of all let us turn our inquiries to the faith
of Judaism itself Although in the lifetime
of Jesus the
resurrection hope had not yet become universal in Judaism, it soon established itself
as a fundamental
doctrine in the rabbinical Judaism which survived the rise
of Christianity.
By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls
of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance
of the general
resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such
as the Anabaptists, to affirm the
doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms
of a fleshly
resurrection at the end - time.
«But in the next century», he wrote, «where this specific
doctrine of the kingdom is abandoned, and the righteous are regarded
as rising either to heaven itself or to the eternal Messianic kingdom in a new heaven and a new earth, the nature
of this
resurrection is,
of necessity, differently conceived.
His devotion to the Torah exhibits a knowledge
of both written and oral law (a basic definition
of Pharisaism
as opposed to Sadducism and Essenism), and he repeatedly affirmed the Pharisaic
doctrine of the
resurrection of the body and the eternal life
of the soul.
If it were not for the
doctrine of original sin, which follows from the
resurrection — just
as a parting glance at who we used to be follows from seeing ourselves
as we are coming to be — we would be left with a religion requiring us to «get it right,» and that is no joy at all.
Bultmann believes that this affects not only the periphery
of the New Testament, but even its central features like the miracles, the demonology, the
doctrine of the End,
of death
as the punishment
of sin,
of vicarious satisfaction through the death and
resurrection of Christ.
A viable interpretation
of the meaning
of the Incarnation requires a focus on love
as the center
of the gospel, and involves a reinterpretation
of traditional
doctrines of Christology, election, prevenient grace, Jesus» suffering and
resurrection, and the image
of God.
(Ibid., 4:7 - 15) Here we find, growing in Judaism under Greek influence, a specific idea
of the immortality
of the soul
as distinct from the
resurrection of the body, and this
doctrine rises into notable expression:
The latter became known
as liberal Protestants, and they would earn notoriety for denying cardinal
doctrines of the Christian faith, such
as the virgin birth, the divinity
of Christ, and his
resurrection from the dead.
And the Encyclopedia
of Religion begins its entry on an even starker note: «The Hebrew scriptures
as a whole have no
doctrine of resurrection.»
So maybe the issue isn't really about whether we've mixed the Easter Bunny up with the
resurrection,
as much
as it is understanding that our «religion» was never meant to be a
doctrine of «do's and don'ts», acceptable and not acceptable».
’19 In so far
as it is possible to learn what contemporary Zoroastrianism actually taught, there would appear to be considerable differences between the developing Jewish
doctrine of resurrection and the Zoroastrian understanding
of the after - life, where
resurrection may be regarded
as being implied, but where it did not actually become explicit or prominent.20
The Pope reaffirms the Christian
doctrine of the
resurrection of the body
as the definitive accomplishment
of the redemption
of the body and then considers Christ's words, «For in the
resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage.»