[Rezension von: Chilton, Bruce, 1949-, Resurrection logic : how Jesus' first followers believed God raised him from the dead]
In this work, Chilton brings his immense knowledge of the worlds of early Christianity to bear on its heart: the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. The title suggests Chilton’s unique, fruitful approach: rather than the standard focus on what resurrection means, Resurrection Logic attempts to pry...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 945-948 |
| Review of: | Resurrection logic (Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, 2019) (Harris, Steven Edward)
Resurrection logic (Waco : Baylor University Press, 2019) (Harris, Steven Edward) |
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| Summary: | In this work, Chilton brings his immense knowledge of the worlds of early Christianity to bear on its heart: the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. The title suggests Chilton’s unique, fruitful approach: rather than the standard focus on what resurrection means, Resurrection Logic attempts to pry apart how each New Testament witness came to believe in the resurrection when confronted by the reality of Jesus alive after his death. Each yields a cosmology, and is coordinated alongside the others within the canon—a sign that each took the others to be speaking of the same reality.Part I begins by detailing the contexts for speaking of life after death prior to Christianity. After examining a series of popular options—Isis, Tammuz, Gilgamesh, and Persephone—Chilton, rightly, rejects them as parallels to both Jewish and Christian claims (chapter one). In Israel’s Scriptures of the First Temple period (chapter two), the stories of Samuel (1 Kgs 28) and Elijah (2 Kgs 2) are exceptions that prove the rule about human fate. Hope for universal after-death existence emerged in both visionary (Isa. 25; Ezek. 37) and philosophical (Philo; Wisdom) Judaism, and took different directions in Maccabean literature (chapter three). Here Chilton offers a fivefold typology into which the previously surveyed views are slotted: resurrected spirits; astral resurrection; angelic resurrection; resurrected flesh; and resurrection of the immortal soul (pp. 57-63). While some texts escape easy categorization (e.g. 1 Enoch), it is a helpful advance on a bare physical/spiritual resurrection binary. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab060 |