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All Blog Posts With Tag: The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
The New Testament witnesses to numerous resurrection appearances of the risen Jesus during the evangelium quadraginta dierum ("the gospel of forty days" as Karl Barth called it) between the Empty Tomb and the Ascension. But which scripture is the oldest account and original form of them all? Many of the […]
The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
Part 4. The Third Day: A Theological Symbol or a Historical Date and Time?
If the resurrection of Jesus Christ was a historical fact, as Wolfhart Pannenberg contends, then there was a specific date and time when the resurrection happened. The New Testament provides two potential […]
The Resurrection Appearances: 3. Faith in the Empty Tomb is an Empty Faith (September 25, 2017)
The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
Part 3. Faith in the Empty Tomb is an Empty Faith
In part three of the Resurrection Appearances series, I've compiled three theologians who reject the historicity of the empty tomb stories in the New Testament: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Raymond E. Brown, and Karl Barth. All three […]
The Resurrection Appearances: 2. Eyewitnesses, Visions or Hallucinations? (September 20, 2017)
The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
Part 2. Eyewitnesses, visions or hallucinations?
The people who saw the resurrection appearances are frequently called eyewitnesses to the risen Jesus Christ, but they were not eyewitnesses in the modern sense of the term. A closer and more accurate analysis of the resurrection appearances reported in the New […]
The Resurrection Appearances: 1. The Argument for Historical Facticity (September 16, 2017)
The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
Part 1. The Argument For Historical Facticity
Is the resurrection of Jesus Christ a historical fact? In a fascinating and illuminating section of Wolfhart's Pannenberg's Systematic Theology, Vol. 2, he critically examines the New Testament witness regarding the resurrection appearances of Jesus and the reports of the […]