Resurrection
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Anglican belief and practice allows that God communicates through his Word as well as through the beauty of his works. The trick, of course, is to keep the two sources of communication in balance. Nowhere is this balance better struck than in the writings of the atheist-turned-Anglican-clergyman Alister McGrath. McGrath takes Scripture very seriously as an unshakable source of truth for belief. At the same time, McGrath recognizes that God also communicates through art and literature. McGrath draws on these two different sources to teach us more about God and about how to live in light of what he has communicated. McGrath also offers a thoroughgoing defense of God’s existence, again drawing not only evidence from Scripture but from the beauty of creation.
Dramatically illuminated by a series of fine art paintings, Alister McGrath’s new volume seeks to engage both the mind and the imagination as he explores the great and extraordinary affirmation: ‘Christ is risen!’ Poetry, prayer, and theological reflection are interwoven with commentary on the ideas conveyed through works such as Maurice Denis’ Holy Women at the Tomb, He Qi’s On the Road to Emmaus, Guercino’s Incredulity of St. Thomas, and William Blake’s River of Life. The result not only increases our understanding of the vital connection between the resurrection of the Son of God and the transformation of human existence, but also helps us to trust in the security of Christ’s grasp on our lives, as he daily sustains us by his love and power.
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- Engages with the great themes of biblical accounts of the resurrection
- Reflects on the meaning of Christ’s resurrection
- Provides inspirational works of art to enhance the discussion
- Introduction
- The Strangeness of the Resurrection
- The Road to Emmaus
- Too Good to Be True?
- The Transfiguration of Failure
- The Road to Damascus
- The Fulfillment of Prophecy
- Making All Things New
- For Further Reading
- Illustrations
Top Highlights
“We must inhabit the experiential world of the disciples as they watch their Christ die before their eyes, without the slightest hint of divine intervention.” (Page 3)
“We often overlook the simple, yet enormously significant, point that the rapidly spreading accounts of Jesus’ resurrection could have been stopped dead in their tracks by producing and publicly displaying his corpse. However, there is not even a hint in any known historical documentation that the Church was obliged to explain away the dead body of its supposedly resurrected Lord.” (Pages 27–29)
“Christ’s rising from the dead takes place at three different though related levels” (Page vi)
“It is something that we need to approach as if we were encountering it for the very first time, appreciating just how remarkable it is.” (Page 2)
“We see here a significant point, that is often overlooked—the importance of action in disclosing Jesus” (Page 43)
- Title: Resurrection
- Author: Alister McGrath
- Publisher: SPCK
- Series: Truth and the Christian Imagination
- Publication Date: 2008
- Pages: 87
Alister McGrath (Ph.D.) is a scholar and writer who is presently Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University. After his initial studies in natural science at Oxford, taking a doctorate in molecular biophysics under the supervision of Prof Sir George Radda, McGrath moved into the field of Christian theology. He was Oxford’s Professor of Historical Theology from 1999 to 2008. He then moved to King’s College London as Professor of Theology, Ministry, and Education, before returning to Oxford as Idreos Professor in 2014. He also served as Gresham Professor of Divinity, a position established in 1597, from 2015-18. He retired in September 2022.
He is best known for his definitive and widely used textbooks on Christian theology and his authoritative biography of C. S. Lewis. As a former atheist, McGrath is fascinated by the interaction of faith, science, and atheism, and writes regularly on these themes. McGrath was born in Belfast in 1953, and holds both Irish and British citizenship. He lives in the Cotswolds near Oxford.
For McGrath’s website, including details of his weekly Youtube postings and videos helping you use his theology textbooks, go to alistermcgrath.net
