The pronouncement of the Bishop of Durham and others have recently indicated a gulf between the thinking of scholars and the ordinary Christian on these important questions. Jesus Risen reflects on three settings in which Christians have understood and interpreted Jesus’s resurrection: the Scholarly setting of the classroom or library, the context of suffering, and the setting of worship. It examines the Fathers new response to the Church, Thomas Aquinas, and a number of twentieth-century writers who have written on the resurrection, including Barth, Bultmann, Moltmann, Rahner and Kung, and draws out the implications the ordinary Christian’s faith.
The author then presents his own response to the basic issues about the resurrection of Jesus. He breaks new ground, especially in developing tests that justify Easter faith and in reflecting on the resurrection as a mystery of love. This book is ideal for students with its comprehensive approach to Easter faith, and also for the general reader wishing to know the resurrection story affects the ordinary Christian’s faith.