I Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus

by George Eldon Ladd

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1975

Overview

With an attractive concision that doesn’t sacrifice scholarship, George Eldon Ladd anticipates much of what N. T. Wright would later popularize in The Resurrection of the Son of God. Ladd both interacts with theories leveled against the resurrection and presents a historical case for its authenticity. He marshals compelling support for the resurrection by exploiting the weaknesses of alternative explanations of the historical data. He also demonstrates the impossibility of the idea of a resurrected messiah naturally arising from Second Temple Judaism. This is a well-informed and carefully argued case for the resurrection.

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Key Features

• Interacts with theories leveled against the resurrection
• Presents a historical case for the authenticity of the resurrection
• Provides compelling support for the resurrection

Contents

• Faith and History
• The Centrality of the Resurrection
• Resurrection in the Old Testament
• The Resurrection in Judaism
• The Messiah and the Resurrection
• The Nature of the Gospels
• The Witness of the Gospels
• The Witness of Paul
• “Historical” Explanations
• Does It Matter?

Top Highlights

“Jesus died: this is solid history. Jesus died for our sins: this is the meaning, the interpretation of the historical event which can be seen only by the eyes of faith.” (Page 19)

“‘To a greater extent than it is anything else, Christianity—at least the Christianity of the New Testament—is a religion of resurrection.” (Page 29)

“As to the death of Jesus, the historian stands on firm soil. ‘Crucified under Pontius Pilate’—here is historical bedrock. Few competent scholars of any theological persuasion today question that fact.” (Page 18)

“All of these hypotheses which have been put forth to explain the rise of the resurrection faith must be found wanting. The only hypothesis which adequately explains the ‘historical’ facts, including the empty tomb, is that God actually raised the body of Jesus from the realm of mortality in the world of time and space to the invisible world of God, and that Jesus was able to appear to his disciples in different ways on different occasions. Admittedly, this is not a ‘historical’ explanation; it involves theology—a belief in God.” (Pages 139–140)

“Faith has to do with the invisible world of God; history has to do with the empirical world of men and things.” (Page 16)

Product Details

• Title: I Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus
• Author: George Eldon Ladd
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 1987
• Pages: 156
• Christian Group: Evangelicals
• Resource Type: Systematic Theologies
• Topic: Eschatology

About George Eldon Ladd

Ladd, professor of New Testament exegesis and theology at Fuller Theological Seminary since 1950, was educated at Gordon College and Gordon Divinity School (B.D.) and received the Ph.D. from Harvard University. He also did postdoctoral study at Heidelberg and Basel Universities. Ordained as an American Baptist minister, Ladd served several churches in the denomination. He was professor of Greek at Gordon College (1942-45) and head of the department of New Testament at Gordon Divinity School (1946-50). His writings include Crucial Questions about the Kingdom of God (1952), The Blessed Hope (1956), The Gospel of the Kingdom (1959), Jesus Christ and History (1963), The New Testament and Criticism (1965), The Pattern of the New Testament (1968), Commentary on The Revelation (1972) and The Theology of the New Testament (1974).