1.B The Resurrection
A key council that formally defined the incarnation was the
Council of Ephesus
The doctrine states that Jesus Christ was
both fully God and fully man
The literal meaning of the word "incarnation" is
becoming human flesh
Which statement best highlights the difference between Jesus's resurrection and resuscitation?
Resurrection involves a new mode of existence.
What specific term did Rudolf Bultmann use to describe the reinterpretation of New Testament stories?
demythologise.
What does Paul clarify about resurrection, differing from the Greek idea of immortality?
It involves a physical body.
According to the provided notes, what was a unique attribute of Jesus's resurrected body?
It could pass through solid barriers.
Rudolf Bultmann categorized the supernatural events in the New Testament, such as the virgin birth, as what?
mythological stories.
Why does Bultmann argue modern belief in New Testament myths like the virgin birth and resurrection is problematic without interpretation?
Because their mythological terminology conflicts with modern intellect and knowledge.
According to Bultmann, what characterizes a myth?
A report of an event involving supernatural powers or persons.
How does Bultmann primarily characterize the event of Easter?
The arising of the early church's collective faith.
Bultmann views the resurrection as the realization that the crucifixion primarily represented what?
A triumphant victory, not an actual defeat.
Where does Bultmann state that people receive their illumination?
Through the process of religious preaching.
According to Bultmann, what is fundamentally the same as faith in the saving efficacy of the cross?
Faith in the reality and meaning of the resurrection.
For Bultmann, why is it challenging for scientifically minded modern readers to accept the resurrection of a corpse?
It contradicts established scientific principles and understanding.
Bultmann regarded the entire enterprise of the historical reconstruction of Jesus as what?
An ultimately fruitless endeavor.
Bultmann famously reduced the entire historical aspect of Christology to which single word?
That
For Bultmann, how must the cross and the resurrection be understood, despite being historical phenomena?
As divine acts discerned by faith.
What is the primary concern of the kerygma, according to Bultmann?
To prompt a necessary decision from hearers.
According to early Christians, what characterized the resurrected body?
A new body with different properties.
How does Wright characterize the belief in resurrection in the Old Testament?
As vague and unfocused.
What did early Christians understand about Jesus's identity due to his resurrection?
His status as the Son of God.
What concept was believed to occur between death and resurrection in post-biblical Judaism?
An interim period, reversing death.
Which Jewish group largely rejected the idea of resurrection?
The Sadducees.
Ancient pagan beliefs concerning resurrection of the dead were typically described as what kind of response?
a consistent negative denial
What significant change occurred to Jewish hope within early Christianity, particularly across the first two centuries?
It underwent remarkable modifications
By the time of Jesus, a majority belief in ultimate bodily resurrection developed in Judaism primarily due to what experience?
Times of persecution and martyrdom
Ancient Judaism's foundational belief about God and the world involved God as creator and a future event where God would
put the world completely to rights
The early Christian belief in hope beyond death is demonstrably positioned within which ancient tradition?
Ancient Jewish eschatological worldview
In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul clarifies that the non-corruptible resurrection body is characterized by what change?
The animating 'soul' is replaced by the Spirit of God's life.
According to the text, which concept of the afterlife did Plato consider possible, in contrast to Homer's view?
An afterlife for the soul only.
How did the Sadducees' belief about an afterlife differ from that of the Pharisees?
Sadducees denied any future life, while Pharisees believed in resurrection.