Sentences with phrase «first resurrection appearance»

As has often been pointed out, the resurrection narratives in the gospels — like the infancy narratives — have the characteristics of myth, while the tradition in Luke and John that the first resurrection appearances were in Jerusalem can not satisfactorily be combined with the Galilee tradition of Mark and Matthew.

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... Why is there no birth narrative or resurrection appearance in the first gospel?

As the tradition developed and the community moved farther and farther away from eyewitness knowledge, the moment of this declaration, or designation, or installation, was moved farther and farther into the earthly life, being associated first with the transfiguration — which was itself probably an original resurrection appearance moved forward into the earthly life --

But these appearances did not continue to occur (Paul says that the appearance to him was as to «One born out of due time») and by the end of the first century it was possible to think of them as having been confined to the short and definite period after the resurrection of which the final exaltation, or ascension, marked the end.

Needless to say, neither Schaberg nor her forty colleagues take seriously such core Christian doctrines, literally recounted in the Gospels, as Christ's divinity, His virginal conception, and His Resurrection (or «resurrection appearances,» as Deirdre J. Good, associate professor at General Theological Seminary, calls the fiResurrection (or «resurrection appearances,» as Deirdre J. Good, associate professor at General Theological Seminary, calls the firesurrection appearances,» as Deirdre J. Good, associate professor at General Theological Seminary, calls the first Easter).

The Epistles of Paul antedate the Gospels, so that the first written testimony we possess to the resurrection of Jesus is I Corinthians 15:3 - 8, where Paul lists his own transforming sight of Christ as on a par with, and of the same sort as, all the other appearances of the risen Lord.

If we grant that Paul meant to claim a similarity in the nature of the appearance, and that he was correct in doing so — both of which are far from certain — then we have here the first evidence that addresses the nature of the resurrection appearances, aside from the unbelievability of the Gospel accounts themselves.

Tomas resurrection has been in the works for a while now, his return to fitness and string of appearances was heartening to watch but he seemed to have lost the ability to make the crucial final pass; the first half of his return was filled with marauding runs which ultimately culminated in a misplaced pass directed at the feet of relieved opposition defender.