(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . layers of tradition. Such concessionforces us to the conclusion that in His higher form of fel-lowship Jesus did appear in a very objective fashion to,His disciples. They must of necessity interpret such vis-ions in a sensuous manner, even tho in so doing they recog-nize! that their changed Lords body was no longer subject even to the limitations they were accustomed to observe ij I in the days of His earthly existence with them. |i i In Kent s estimate of the Living Christ (in th^Life and Teachings of Jesus), the usual evidence both ofthe Gospe
(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . layers of tradition. Such concessionforces us to the conclusion that in His higher form of fel-lowship Jesus did appear in a very objective fashion to,His disciples. They must of necessity interpret such vis-ions in a sensuous manner, even tho in so doing they recog-nize! that their changed Lords body was no longer subject even to the limitations they were accustomed to observe ij I in the days of His earthly existence with them. |i i In Kent s estimate of the Living Christ (in th^Life and Teachings of Jesus), the usual evidence both ofthe Gospels and of the Pauline experience is , this author agrees rith us that the essential elei ments in the gospel narratives, after all, are what Jesus ;l was and taught; and these corner-stones stand quite indeipendent of the resurrection stories. {p. 300) He then|points out the kind of a Resurrection v/hich it was per- Ifectly normal for these e^.rly writers to have faith conception of. any individual„immortaliJ:y in that day|. 40, ^ence tae jewisti cnrTitlai^ naturHly thought of the possj-bllity of Jesus reappearing in no other manner. Herodbelieved that Jesus wa.: John the Faptict returned to we find that to the common people of Palestine, fromwhon the first and second generations of Christians came,the rising of the dead w^^s not as marvelous as it seems today,In Kent^^s opinion Paul shows the influence of the Pharisaicdoctrine of a bodily resurrection in his writings, but thisapostle unequivocally rejects it as insufficient to explainhis own belief. Paul therefore represents a transitionfrom the Jewish belief in the bodily rcsurrectiojiito thct purely slritual conception of individual immortalitywhich was the great contribution of the wisest thinkers ofGreece. * * From the supernatural view which we have studied andfound, in some instances, shading off into -hat we have |choserjto call the more pronouncedly spiritual type, we
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