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resurrection (rĕz'ərĕk`shən) [Lat.,=rising again], arising again from death to life. The emergence of Jesus from the tomb to live on earth again for 40 days as told in the Gospels has been from the beginning the central fact of Christian experience and a cardinal feature of Christian doctrine (Mat. 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20; Acts 4.2; Romans 6). It was the guarantee not only of Christ's mission and the seal of redemption but also of the resurrection of all men. The general resurrection or resurrection of the body has been understood in diverse ways, always in the light of St. Paul's teaching on the risen or glorified body. In the conventional theology the material body is identified with the glorified body (since the soul is the substantial form of each) and is in some way spiritualized so that it is made incorruptible and immortal. At the end of the world (see Judgment Day Judgment Day or Doomsday, central point of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic eschatology, sometimes called the Day of the Lord. References to it throughout the Bible are numerous. ..... Click the link for more information. ) the souls of all men will be reunited with their risen bodies. The Christian doctrine of resurrection of the body is thus fundamentally different from the resurrection beliefs of the ancient Egyptian religion Egyptian religion, the religious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Egypt. Information concerning ancient Egyptian religion is abundant but unsatisfactory. Only certain parts of Egyptian religious life and thought are known; whole periods remain in the dark. ..... Click the link for more information. and other ancient religions (see fertility rites fertility rites, magico-religious ceremonies to insure an abundance of food and the birth of children. The rites, expressed through dances, prayers, incantations, and sacred dramas, seek to control the otherwise unpredictable forces of nature. ..... Click the link for more information. ). Belief in a resurrection of the body distinguished the Pharisees from the Sadducees. It is also a tenet of Muslim belief. BibliographySee C. W. Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 (1995). Resurrection Adonis vegetation god, reborn each spring. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 10] after dying in place of her husband, she is brought back from the dead by Heracles. [Gk. Drama: Alcestis] sacrificed children are restored to life. [Medieval Legend: Benét, 31] god whose cauldron restored the dead to life. [Welsh Myth.: Jobes, 241] raised from the dead by St. Peter. [N.T.: Acts 9:36–42] restored to life by John the Evangelist. [Christian Hagiog.: Golden Legend] god of regeneration and resurrection. [Sumerian Myth.: Jobes, 476] symbol of Christ’s resurrection. [Art: Hall, 110] breathes life back into child. [O.T.: I Kings 17:18]
old, maimed king whose restoration symbolizes the return of spring vegetation. [Medieval Legend: T. S. Eliot The Waste Land in Norton Literature] Christ raises her from the dead. [N.T.: Mat-thew 9:18–19; Mark 5:21–24; Luke 8:40–42] arose from the dead three days after His crucifix-ion. [N.T.: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20] calls him back to life from the tomb. [N.T.: John 11:43–44] Tennessee native freezes to death in Alaska but is brought back to life in the cremation furnace. [Am. Poetry: Service “The Cremation of Sam McGee”] fabled bird, rises from its ashes. [Gk. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 829; Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 76] bursting with seed, it symbolizes open tomb. [Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 77] symbol for Ra, sun-god; reborn each day. [Animal Symbolism: Mercatante, 180] god died annually and rose each spring. [Babyl. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1071] touched by mother’s grief, Christ brings him back to life. [N.T.: Luke 7:11–17] |
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above all, For the resurrection of deep-buried faith In Truth -- in Virtue -- in Humanity -- Of all who, on Despair's unhallowed bed Lying down to die, have suddenly arisen At thy soft-murmured words, "Let there be light The mixed, singular, luminous gloom in which they walked along together to the spot where the cows lay, often made him think of the Resurrection hour. First, during the ceremonies on Good Friday, the day when Christ was crucified, the cross which stood all the year above the altar, bearing the Savior's figure, was taken down and laid beneath the altar, a dramatic symbol of the Death and Burial; and two days later, on 'the third day' of the Bible phraseology, that is on Easter Sunday, as the story of the Resurrection was chanted by the choir, the cross was uncovered and replaced, amid the rejoicings of the congregation. |
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