NT Wright's Lecture- Can a Scientist Believe in the Resurrection?
Went to Bishop Tom Wright's lecture organised by the Faraday Institute. It was such an inspiring lecture, providing an example that erudition need not come at the expense of clarity.
While I can't say that I understood some parts (given that I was quite tired) Wright's lecture reminded me of why I wanted to devote my life to an academic vocation in the first place. He not only knew his subject well but was able to explain his reasoning in a fairly accessible way.
I couldn't wait to return to my office after the lecture to work on my PhD and read more about my own subject. Not only the cool, dispassionate pursuit of knowledge but also to love one's work and subject. Just as we not only need to know Jesus intellectually or cognitively, but we also need to love him.
While I can't say that I understood some parts (given that I was quite tired) Wright's lecture reminded me of why I wanted to devote my life to an academic vocation in the first place. He not only knew his subject well but was able to explain his reasoning in a fairly accessible way.
I couldn't wait to return to my office after the lecture to work on my PhD and read more about my own subject. Not only the cool, dispassionate pursuit of knowledge but also to love one's work and subject. Just as we not only need to know Jesus intellectually or cognitively, but we also need to love him.
posted by Pongism at 10:04 pm
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Why did early converts to Jesus-worship in Corinth scoff at the idea that God would choose to raise corpses?
Why does Paul tell them that Jesus became a spirit?
Why does Paul call them idiots for even discussing how a corpse can return from the dead - telling them that you do not plant the body that will be?
Why does he remind them that earthly beings differ from heavenly beings the way that a fish differs from the moon?
Why does he trash the idea that God would make resurrected beings from the dust of the earth , as follows
'The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.'
Why does Paul plead in Romans 7:24 for somebody to rescue him from his body of death?
All this and more, is ignored by Wright.
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