Abstract
In this article, firstly I discuss why it is important to have an exegetically sound biblical view on the resurrection for the attractiveness of the church. To attain this, theology – in both the Catholic and the Protestant tradition – should change its approach of eschatology as focusing on “going to heaven when you die” to a view of “participating in a new creation”. Secondly, I will give some examples of how the biblical message about the resurrection thus understood can make the mission of the church strong enough to have its own relevant and attractive alternative narrative in a world of competing narratives.
Highlights
A Biblical View on the Resurrection and the Attractiveness of the ChurchOne kind of spiritual experience – proclamation and celebration – evokes the other spiritual experience of the belief in resurrection
One of the slogans of the World Council of Churches was the dictum: “The world sets the agenda for the church”
How can the biblical message about the resurrection strengthen the mission of the church to have an own relevant and attractive alternative narrative in a world of competing narratives
Summary
One kind of spiritual experience – proclamation and celebration – evokes the other spiritual experience of the belief in resurrection In this view, both of these spiritual events caused the coming into existence of the narratives heavily predicated on the physical element – the stories about the empty tomb and people meeting with the risen Jesus. According to the story they present to Jesus, these men had been the woman’s subsequent husbands during their earthly life, yet in the resurrection, all of them simultaneously could claim to be her rightful husband It is, by the way, not quite sure whether the other way around, that is, one husband having seven wives at the same time would have posed a unsurmountable problem for them. Marriage will be not necessary anymore, for people “cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and sons of God.” The reference to being like the angels is, not a statement about what form the righteous will receive following the resurrection, but an affirmation that they will become immortal – in that way equal to the angels.
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