Sentences with phrase «original resurrection appearance»

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 --

A strong case can be made for the view that the original resurrection appearances were in the nature of visions, and that the physical resuscitation accounts were developed for the purpose of convincing the doubtful, who thought the disciples had only seen a ghost.

Not exact matches

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

As for Mark, there are many explanations as to why there is no post resurrection appearance in it (at least with its original ending).

· These eight verses of resurrection narrative in Mark's gospel so disturbed the Early Church that twelve more verses of appearances of the risen Christ were added on to the original formula.

It is at least possible that Luke, in telling the story, has exaggerated the difference between the Damascus event and the resurrection appearances in his Gospel in order to maintain a distinction between the original apostles and Paul.

Thus, «he is going before you to Galilee» (Mark 16:7) does not in this understanding refer to a resurrection appearance (either implied or in a missing original ending), but rather to the Second Coming.

When Halloween: Resurrection opened in the summer of 2002, it marked the final appearance of scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis in the franchise that made her famous, as well as the end of the original series of films, but few could have predicted how ahead of its time it was in terms of its online streaming reality TV plot.

It's a lot closer to the spirit of the original film than her appearances in Halloween: 20 Years Later and Halloween: Resurrection, so I'm all for it.