* The structure of resurrection belief ( 1993, c1987 ) Oxford,: Clarendon Press ISBN 0198267568

Amalric had an enormous curiosity, and William was reportedly astonished to find Amalric questioning, during an illness, the resurrection of the body.

Most Protestant denominations deny the need of maintaining episcopal continuity with the early Church, holding that the role of the apostles was that, having been chosen directly by Jesus as witnesses of his resurrection, they were to be the " special instruments of the Holy Spirit in founding and building up the Church ".

Adoptionism, sometimes called dynamic monarchianism, is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was adopted as God's Son either at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension.

God's purpose for all time was to redeem for himself a people through the death and resurrection of Christ.

Christian Science teaches that Christ Jesus was sent by God and that his history is factual, including the virgin birth, the crucifixion, the resurrection, and the ascension.

Because of his special status due to the virgin birth and his pure, unselfish nature, Jesus voluntarily faced his struggle in Gethsemane, death, resurrection, and ascension to show humanity that no phase of mortal existence was beyond God's redeeming love.

1 Corinthians 15, 3-7 includes an early creed about Jesus ' death and resurrection which was probably received by Paul.

Zoé Oldenbourg ( 2000 ) compared the Cathars to " Western Buddhists " because she considered that their view of the doctrine of " resurrection " taught by Jesus was, in fact, similar to the Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation.

Socrates Scholasticus ( born c. 380 ), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives a full description of the discovery ( that was repeated later by Sozomen and by Theodoret ) which emphasizes the role played in the excavations and construction by Helena ; just as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ( also founded by Constantine and Helena ) commemorated the birth of Jesus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre would commemorate his death and resurrection.

As early as the 2nd century, however, some authorities declared this resurrection of the dead was a prophetic vision: an opinion regarded by Maimonides ( Guide for the Perplexed, II: 46 ) and his followers as the only rational explanation of the Biblical passage.

His black skin was symbolic of the color of mummified flesh and the fertile black soil that Egyptians saw as a symbol of resurrection.

The notion that hell was below the earth is stated clearly in early Christian tradition by the belief, still recited by most Christians in the Apostolic and Athanasian creeds, that Christ " descended into hell " between his death and resurrection.

Another factor, more recently pointed out, was the way in which Christianity combined its promise of a general resurrection of the dead with the traditional Greek belief that true immortality depended on the survival of the body, with Christianity adding practical explanations of how this was going to actually happen at the end of the world.

Mary's salvation was won by her son Jesus Christ through his passion, death, and resurrection and was not due to her own merits.

Craig Blomberg states that if the three elements " lawful to call him a man ", " he was the Christ " and the reference to the resurrection are removed from the Testimonium the rest of the passage flows smoothly within the context, fits the style of Josephus and is likely to be authentic.

In this passage, which is based on Meier's reconstruction, Jesus is called a " wise man " but " lawful to call him a man " and " he was the Christ " are removed, as is the reference to the resurrection.

In Vermes ' reconstruction " there was Jesus a wise man " is retained, but the reference to " he was the Christ " is changed to " he was called the Christ " and the resurrection reference is omitted.

Some believers claim that Jonah did die in the belly of the great fish, and was then resurrected by God since Jesus himself associated this event in Jonah's life with his own death and resurrection.

that Dick Clark recently purchased the rights to the TAMI film and re-inserted the Beach Boys ' numbers-This TAMI resurrection was used as a PBS fundraiser and the DVD is available from the PBS website.

He was a devout Christian and preached on one occasion at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London on the topic of evidence for the resurrection.

Some notable differences with mainstream Christianity include: A belief that Jesus began his atonement in the garden of Gethsemane and continued it to his crucifixion, rather than the orthodox belief that the crucifixion alone was the physical atonement ; and an afterlife with three degrees of glory, with hell ( often called spirit prison ) being a temporary repository for the wicked between death and the resurrection.

In his 2006 homily for Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI noted the similarity between the Christian story of the resurrection and pagan myths of dead and resurrected gods: " In these myths, the soul of the human person, in a certain way, reached out toward that God made man, who, humiliated unto death on a cross, in this way opened the door of life to all of us.

The Torah has little to say on the subject of survival after death, but by the time of the rabbis two ideas had made inroads among the Jews: one, which is probably derived from Greek thought, is that of the immortal soul which returns to its creator after death ; the other, which is thought to be of Persian origin, is that of resurrection of the dead.

81. 4 " Moreover also among us a man named John, one of the apostles of Christ, prophesied in a revelation made to him that those who have believed on our Christ will spend a thousand years in Jerusalem ; and that hereafter the general and, in short, the eternal resurrection and judgment of all will likewise take place ").

The death and resurrection of Christ is introduced as the only way in which our inadequate human attempts to redeem humanity's sins could be made adequate in God's eyes.

Christian pilgrimage was first made to sites connected with the birth, life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.

According to Mark and Luke, the announcement of Jesus ' resurrection was first made to women.

In the first centuries, the first day, being made a festival in honor of Christ's resurrection, received attention as a day of religious services and recreation, but seventh-day Sabbath rest was still observed by " almost all churches ".

According to Christian belief, salvation is made possible by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, which in the context of salvation is referred to as the " atonement ".

Jesus, however, was victorious over Satan in his crucifixion and resurrection, and thus made possible spiritual salvation for those who are reborn through him and the Holy Spirit.

For much of the British population it was not until the 20th century that the link between the body and resurrection was finally broken as cremation was only made legal in 1902.

The relationship is frequently violent, with Buffy most often initiating both the violence and the sex between them ; the violence is made all the easier when Spike finds that ( as a side effect of Willow's resurrection spell ) his chip now does not stop him from harming Buffy.

After Pelops ' resurrection, Poseidon took him to Olympus, and made the youth apprentice, teaching him also to drive the divine chariot.

** This prayer asks that the Divine Trinity may receive the oblation being made in remembrance of the passion, resurrection and ascension of Jesus and in honour of blessed Mary ever Virgin and the other saints, " that it may avail to their honour and our salvation: and that they may vouchsafe to intercede for us in heaven ..."

Jesus, however, was victorious over Satan in his crucifixion and resurrection, and thus made possible spiritual salvation for those who are reborn through him and the Holy Spirit.

Here Saadia refutes the objections made, on the basis of nature, reason, and the Bible, to the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, and presents the proof for it contained in tradition.

However, Paul of Tarsus speaks of two ways, at least in theory, to achieve righteousness: through the Torah, the law of Moses ; and through faith in the atonement made possible through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, ().

However, after Wolverine's soul was damaged following his resurrection and brainwashing by the Hand, he made a new deal with Azrael to repair the damage that had been done to his soul that negated their previous arrangement, with the result that, the next time Wolverine sustains death-inducing injuries, he will remain dead, and his healing factor has apparently been slightly weakened in the process.

The Didache makes no mention of Jesus ' resurrection, other than thanking for " immortality, which Thou hast made known unto us through Thy Son Jesus " in the eucharist, but the Didache makes specific reference to the resurrection of the just prior to the Lord's coming.

Jesus then remained on earth after his resurrection eighteen months, at first himself not understanding the whole truth, but enlightened by a revelation subsequently made him, which he taught to a chosen few of his disciples, and then was taken up to heaven.

An appended text purports to be a written report made by Pontius Pilate to Claudius, containing an anti-Semitic description of the crucifixion, as well as an account of the resurrection of Jesus ; both are presented as if in an official report.

In general they appear to believe that there will be a resurrection to life, and a resurrection to condemnation ; that believers only will be among the former, who as first fruits, and kings and priests, will have part in the first resurrection, and shall reign with Christ in his kingdom of the millennium ; that unbelievers who are after raised, must wait the manifestation of the Saviour of the world, under that condemnation of conscience which a mind in darkness and wrath must necessarily feel ; that believers, called kings and priests, will be made the medium of communication to their condemned brethren ; and like Joseph to his brethren, though he spoke roughly to them, in reality overflowed with affection and tenderness ; that ultimately every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that in the Lord they have righteousness and strength ; and thus every enemy shall be subdued to the kingdom and glory of the Great Mediator.