The effects of sin will be removed through faith in Jesus» ransom sacrifice, and the effects of death will be reversed
by means of the 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..
So for me, one of
the meanings of the resurrection is that just after you think God has died, a surprise is in store.
This explains why St. Paul borrows Gnostic language to clarify
the meaning of the resurrection.
My sermon was intended to show something of
the meaning of the Resurrection for us.
One person commented, «I have come to realize that
the meaning of the resurrection, in all of its hope, comes only by giving voice to the brokenness.»
This meaning of the resurrection for faith can be held with various views of the resurrection experiences.
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».
In the writing of Rudolf Bultmann, the great German form - critic whose program of «de-mythologization» attracted much attention during the past quarter - century, there is still another way of presenting
the meaning of resurrection.
The meaning of the resurrection of the crucified Jesus for our understanding of God is this: God was not a distant spectator but was decisively present, speaking, acting and suffering in all that Jesus did and in all that happened to him.
It is here that we find
the meaning of the resurrection.
It is the man who is willing to bear the cross to the end of his days who knows
the meaning of resurrection and the secret of eternal life.
The meaning of the cross must not be forgotten in
the meaning of the resurrection.
The meaning of the resurrection.
From this it follows that the key to the interpretation of the Christian message is
the meaning of the resurrection of Jesus.
This is
the meaning of the resurrection in any sense that matters; and is it to be doubted that the resurrection thus defined belongs essentially to the event we are discussing?
Is it actually possible to declare the dimension of
the meaning of the resurrection if that declaration is unsurrounded by, unsupported by, and, in the trans - momentary reality of worship, uninvested with the non-propositional noetic force of historical time?
JK: Probably one of the key differences between Judaism and Christianity concerns
the meaning of the resurrection.
Pannenberg goes on to describe
the meaning of the resurrection claim in the first - century Jewish world in which it happened.
Whereas for Pannenberg
the meaning of the resurrection is inseparable from the kind of claim it makes and the language which is appropriate to that claim, as well as inextricably rooted in the texts of the New Testament and in the Jewish world of the early first century, for Polkinghorne the resurrection is a conclusion that is required by logic and enabled by a theory of physical matter.
At one point the discussion led to an exchange about
the meaning of the resurrection of the body and Catholic teaching about the Holy Eucharist.
The meaning of resurrection likewise shifts.
For most moderns, meanwhile,
the meaning of resurrection has become clouded, an unbelievable answer to a forgotten question.
I do believe that there is a very clear reading of
the meaning of the resurrection story as something that a great many human beings experience in their life - a process of dying and rebirth - and that we see everywhere in nature, and that this story is one of those that serves to define our purpose in life.
This post was especially dear because of your focus on
the meaning of the Resurrection and THE ONE who was resurrected.