Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life. Don Schweitzer

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is a source of an all-embracing hope.74 Its soteriological meaning reaches out to encompass virtually every form of alienation, suffering, and evil.

      Conclusion

      As an eschatological event with objective and subjective dimensions, Jesus’ resurrection does not have any one fundamental meaning. It has many. It receives a different interpretation in each of the Gospels and throughout other books of the New Testament. These share themes and emphases, but they cannot be reduced to one common denominator. Jesus’ resurrection formed a dynamic center of meaning in conjunction with preceding Jewish traditions, the memory of his ministry and death, and subsequent experiences of the Holy Spirit. It gave rise to the faith, after his death, that he is the Christ. In the next chapter we will examine how this faith developed over the subsequent centuries, so that this Jewish “rabbi” came to be affirmed by Gentile Christians as the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity, at once fully human and fully divine.


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