(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . n 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
(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . n 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 a very cursory survey of the naturalistic theory - one ^^owhich iirfscarcely worth whilt ta turn aside. Peim ad- vanced at one time what he called the objective hypothesistheory. His hypothesis is that while the body of Jesus jremained in the tomb. His living Spirit sent telegrams to Ithe disciples to asLurc them thct He still lived. In sucha presentation, however, Eelm himself acknowledges that the. 41 supernatural Is not entirely elimlnatecL. Another hypott esis that for a period was widely accepted is that Jesus did nottruly die on the cross but that He had fainted and, in tljiehaste of the Passover preparation preparation, was placed inthe tomb. He is then supposed to have revived and to havebroken His way thru the sealed tomb. For a r^eriod He w^sin association with the disciples amidst the familiar scenes in Galilee. Finally, His wounds proved fatal and He to<;)k I His departure from the group. To some minds some such interpretations as these arealluring because of the explanation that they give of a |bodily , but they nust at last fall. They anrejected by historical students because they do not takeinto consideration the evidence of Paul nor that of theolder G-ospel narratives, nor do they account in the leas-|^degree for tie new life which burned in the hearts of the disciples. ore fundamental than this, howev
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