The first Christians proclaimed that the crucified Jesus was raised to life and exalted into the realm of God, a metahistorical event. Thus the risen Lord is the resurrection and the life.
Title: The first Christians proclaimed that the crucified Jesus was raised to life and exalted into the realm of God, a metahistorical event. Thus the risen Lord is the resurrection and the life.
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The first Christians proclaimed that the crucified Jesus was raised to life and exalted into the realm of God, a metahistorical event. Thus the risen Lord is the resurrection and the life.
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 479 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The first Christians proclaimed that the crucified Jesus was raised to life and exalted into the realm of God. For them, this equals salvation. This affirms both the beliefs that Jesus lives on in the faith of the community as well as God acting in behalf of Jesus thus He is alive. Furthermore, they believed that His resurrection is not a return to life in this world but it is rather a passage into another …showed first 75 words of 479 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 479 total…repeating its infinity to finitude. In other words, it is a non-identical repetition of Jesus' life that changes everything and everyone it meets thus renewing the world. Christ is then repeated perfectly only in and through each non-identical (imperfect) repetition. Christ is given over to the stories that aim to tell His life in theirs so that His life is fully told only in the telling of every life that is part of the Church.