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• W4313199523 abstract "Reviewed by: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Historical and Theological Reflections by Matthew Levering Brant Pitre Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Historical and Theological Reflections by Matthew Levering (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 272 pp. In his book Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Historical and Theological Reflections, Matthew Levering writes to make the case that there is good reason to believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus (1). In this self-described work of theological apologetics (211), Levering argues from a threefold foundation for the credibility of Jesus's resurrection: (1) the New Testament evidence, considered from the perspective of historical investigation; (2) the sheer strangeness of the apostolic claim that [End Page 1347] Jesus was resurrected and not just resuscitated or exalted into heaven as an immortal soul; (3) and the intrinsic credibility of the supreme love revealed through his death and resurrection (2–4). As this threefold foundation makes clear, Levering draws together both historical and theological reasons for believing that Jesus' Resurrection happened (4). In chapter 1, Levering contends that, while faith does not stand or fall upon the results of historical research, those who insist that the truth of Jesus' Resurrection has nothing to do with the domain of historical investigation are mistaken (30). To this end, he offers a survey of three figures: (1) the Belgian Dominican theologian Edward Schillebeeckx; (2) the American Protestant biblical scholar Dale C. Allison Jr.; and (3) the Anglican bishop and biblical theologian N. T. Wright. Levering exposes the serious flaws of contemporary attempts to reduce the resurrection claims of early Christians to hallucinations or visions of someone who has recently died. In particular, Levering finds compelling Wright's argument that the bodily resurrection of Jesus provides the best historical explanation of the early Christian claim that what first-century Jews expected to happen to everyone at the end of time had in fact happened to only one person—Jesus of Nazareth—in the middle of time. From a strictly historical point of view, claims that the disciples were merely moved by grace to a new experience Jesus being alive or that they simply experienced hallucinatory visions of Jesus after his death fail to explain the radical change of eschatology that took place in the early Church (56). In chapter 2, Levering explores the question of whether the Church's mediation is truly effective in enabling us to share in the apostolic communion with the risen Jesus (63). He first offers a sympathetic overview of the Protestant biblical scholar Richard Bauckham's book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (2003; 2nd ed., 2017), in which he claims that the Gospels rest largely on eyewitness testimony (87–88). According to Levering, Bauckham's historical arguments show that the ongoing presence of eyewitnesses provides a reason for not being skeptical about the major events of Jesus' life as reported by the Gospels, including his Resurrection (89). At the same time, Levering insists that eyewitness memory is only one mode of historical remembrance utilized by the Church; in addition, Jesus also willed that the historical remembrance of his Resurrection be an ecclesial reality (90)—that is, a liturgical act of remembrance that takes place above all in the Eucharistic liturgy. In chapter 3, Levering aims to shed light on the role of the Old Testament in aiding the discernment of the historical credibility of Jesus's Resurrection (91). This chapter presents a stark contrast to contemporary [End Page 1348] studies of the resurrection that begin (and end) with the New Testament data. In it, Levering surveys the work of three contemporary scholars—Dale Allison, N. T. Wright, and the Jewish scholar Jon Levenson—and puts them in conversation with Thomas Aquinas's thirteenth-century commentary on the account of Jesus's resurrection in John 20–21. As this chapter amply demonstrates, it is precisely in the scriptural history that the Creator God has guided, that we come to know that given such a God and such a history, Jesus' Resurrection is believable (112). According to Levering, the entire Old Testament (113) is a necessary prolegomenon for understanding what it even means to say that Jesus has been raised in the first..." @default.
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• W4313199523 title "Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Historical and Theological Reflections by Matthew Levering" @default.
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