(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . inseparable from religiouspresuppositions. Or, in the thought of Hegel (Philosophyof History, II. 221), the Resurrection belongs eventuallyto the province of faith. With this conclusion of Simp-son, all our best efforts conform, tho we do not hold withhim to all his other conservative estimates. Nor can weswing to the opp site pole - to such a theory as Pfleidererclings to in his Philosophy and Development of conceives of the Resurrection as the crowning event ofthe life of the Messiah, and lauds it as the crisis whichtore the Jews aw
(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . inseparable from religiouspresuppositions. Or, in the thought of Hegel (Philosophyof History, II. 221), the Resurrection belongs eventuallyto the province of faith. With this conclusion of Simp-son, all our best efforts conform, tho we do not hold withhim to all his other conservative estimates. Nor can weswing to the opp site pole - to such a theory as Pfleidererclings to in his Philosophy and Development of conceives of the Resurrection as the crowning event ofthe life of the Messiah, and lauds it as the crisis whichtore the Jews away from their carnal hope^ of the Kingdom,raising them to a higher world :.f faith and hope. Pfleid-erer, too, sifts the witnesses of the Resurrected Lord downto Paul and ^^ark, and argues that the particular groundswhich actualized this possibility (of faith in the bodilyresurrection) lay in the psychological state of the disciplesof Jesus after the death of the Lord.() He laysjmuGh weight^on the obeervation^that It was^ Peter^ the man \. 35. !: of vivid feeling andToF quickly exHtabirsoul, who firs came to the conviction that the crucified One was of Religion, he asserts, has often furnished casesequally convincing as this. Somewhere between the crudephysical fact which haa been indicated as repulsive to thethoughtful mind, and the extreme view of an estimate likethis of Pfleiderer our final conclusions must lie. The study of J.:^Shaw in The Resurrection of Christis enlightening all along the line of our interpretation,altho in his own position he, too, holds to the literalresurrection of the body of the Lord. The reduced orattenuated Christianity which is the outcome of the indif-ference to the bodily of the Resurrection not onlydoes less than Justice to the apostolic thought,, he contends,but has serious consequences for our belief in the centrallydetermined and constitutive significance of the Resurrectionof Christ for our view of the world and
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