(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . carry out the ideaat least of a very strange sort of physical existence: TheRisen Lord passed thru the closed sepulcher and thru a closeddoor (Luke ^4:36); He could be present in distant places atapparantly short intervals (Luke 15:34); He appeared sudden-ly without any physical locomotion (John 20:\9), and He dis-appeared suddenly (Luke 34:31, He vanished from their sight.)This latter citation Shaw conceles to have been a disappear-ance, not a spacial withdrawal. (p. 83) From these observations and the fact that the dis-ciples on the road to Em
(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . carry out the ideaat least of a very strange sort of physical existence: TheRisen Lord passed thru the closed sepulcher and thru a closeddoor (Luke ^4:36); He could be present in distant places atapparantly short intervals (Luke 15:34); He appeared sudden-ly without any physical locomotion (John 20:\9), and He dis-appeared suddenly (Luke 34:31, He vanished from their sight.)This latter citation Shaw conceles to have been a disappear-ance, not a spacial withdrawal. (p. 83) From these observations and the fact that the dis-ciples on the road to Emmaus did not recognize the Lord asHe walked with their:, Shaw is led to theory which blendsinto the spiritual conception of the Resurrection before heis thru with his analysation of the Appearances of the Risen Is restrained in his belief in the physical nature of theLords body by the strange aloofness of His presence and Hisreserved attitude in which He spoke of the time when I wasyet with you (Luke 24i44). The only solution which this. 39. £c|ibla>r finds adequate is that during the period of theae appearances Jesus, in His intercourse with the disciples,was hovering between the old form and a new in a transitionalcondition,combining the seemingly opposite qualities of thematerial and the spiritual. This interpretation driveshim to the position of Weis^cker, that vie have in theGospels two different 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 Pauli
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