THE 2205 Chapter Notes - Chapter Preface/One: Empty Tomb, Docetism, Immanence

• School: St. John's University
• Department: Theology and Religious Studies
• Course: THE 2205
• Professor: Paul Molnar

Document Summary

The resurrection itself is not an event of past history. Marxsen: that the activity of jesus of nazareth goes on after his death in the lives of his followers so that the resurrection stories are imaginative ways of expressing christian faith. Suggest that the resurrection is created within or realized through the faith of the disciples. Its characteristics include a dissatisfaction with the radical view, an emphasis upon the appearance stories as an explanation, a historical scepticism about the empty tomb, and an uneasiness about any notion of the miraculous. Is the myth of the death of jesus. It is the statement, in the form of narrated symbols, of the deep significance for human kind of the death and of this man. Resurrection was an event in the life of jesus that gave rise to the faith of the disciples. Jesus" significance for faith is a consequence of his being personally raised from the dead.