![]() ![]() Most modern Christians have ignored these key passages: Generations of liberal readers have said, triumphantly, that Paul clearly thinks the resurrection body is spiritual rather than physical, so there’s no need for an empty tomb. we face the problem of the disastrous translation of the RSV, perpetuated in the NRSV, where we find the contrasting present and future bodies translated as ‘physical body’ and ‘spiritual body’ (15:44, 46). ![]() It answers many questions barely touched on in Surprised by Hope.īut for the sake of this post, I quote from and comment on an essay by Wright that summarizes his conclusions, “Mind, Spirit, Soul and Body: All for One and One for All-Reflections on Paul’s Anthropology in His Complex Contexts,” found in Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul, 1978-2013 (2013), 464–465. The Resurrection of the Son of God is a mere 740 pages, and as you can imagine, quite thorough. Surprised by Hope is written at a more popular level and is a great read (although I disagree with his conclusions regarding the nature of hell). The question is central to his books The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. The scholar who has most thoroughly studied the question of Christian resurrection is doubtlessly N.
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