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Bultmann's views on the resurrection

- Necessary for Christian belief Jesus lived, preached and was crucified
- New Testament must be demythologised for modern readers to understand
-Resurrection was metaphorical and a faith statement
- Rejects historicity but not spiritual importance
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Bultmann's views of myths

- Attempt to explain world humans live in and existence within and to explain the divine in understandable human terms
- NT uses mythological terminology of their time so impossible for modern day readers to understand actual meaning
- Resurrection not a

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What myths did Bultmann identify?

- Virgin birth
- Miracles
- Physical resurrection

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Pre and Post Easter Jesus

- Pre Easter Jesus = historical figure
- Post Easter Jesus = religious figure
- Post Easter Jesus is Jesus of faith
- Easter about arising, not of Jesus but the faith of the early church
- Disciples merged both Christ's together through fictionalisation

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NT Wright's views on resurrection

- Vital element of Christian religion
- Religion began as 'resurrection movement'
- Was a central driving force of Christianity
- Act of 'going through death and coming out the other side into a new mode of existence' which propelled the religion forward

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Reason for early Christian belief

- Believed Jesus was the Messiah but why as not done as Judaism said the Messiah would?
- Christians believed Jesus being bodily resurrected from the dead constituted him as being the Messiah, not a myth

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Prior beliefs on resurrection

- No evidence in Greek of any belief in a resurrection
- Jewish thought on subject was confused, some belief heroes would raise from the dead but no one thought they actually had
- From this early Christians arose, saying Jesus is Messiah since having res

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