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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE REALITY OF THE RESURRECTION \nBy Bruce Vawter \n◊◊◊ \nIn biblical faith the resurrection is something; something did occur to \naccount for the appearances of Jesus after his death. It is not to retreat into \nobscurity or equivocation to confess that we have no better way of defining that \nsomething than to call it resurrection. We cannot define what is indefinable in \nterms of human experience; we can only describe it in some fashion by the use \nof the pictures we call analogies. The picture we use following the New \nTestament precedent to describe both what God effected in Christ and\, with it \nas the proleptic example\, what its faith promises to all who share in God’s \nkingdom\, is mythical to the extent that\, taken in all literalness\, it might equally \nwell serve to describe the resuscitation of a corpse\, which the New Testament \ndoes not intend to do… \nPaul…for all his insistence on the resurrection as a reality\, did not think \nof it as a resurrection of dead flesh: “Perhaps someone will say\, ‘How are the \ndead to be raised up? What kind of body will they have?’ A nonsensical question! \nThe seed you sow does not germinate unless it dies. When you sow\, you do not \nsow the full-blown plant but a kernel of wheat or some other grain. God gives \nbody to it as he pleases — to each seed its own fruition… So is it with the \nresurrection of the dead. \nPaul admittedly tells us more about what\, in his view\, the resurrection is \nnot than what it is\, but at the same time he tells us enough to dissuade us from \ndismissing lightly the testimony of his senses\, which he joined to the witness of \nhis tradition. Here was a man quite conscious of the validity of what are \nsometimes thought to be modern and scientific objections to the idea of \nresurrection; a man convinced that something had occurred that he could only \ncall resurrection while regretting the inadequacy of the concept. Paul was as \nprepared as anyone today for demythologizing\, but he was not prepared to \ndisallow any fact out of his inability to explain it. Rather than deny the fact\, he \npreferred to retain the myth with all its attendant ambiguities. \n  \n7 This Man Jesus\, Bruce Vawter. Doubleday & Co. 1973. p.48-9.14. \n 
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-184/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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