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Wright on the resurrection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2007

Michael Welker
Michael Welker*
Affiliation:
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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In 2003, the year he was consecrated bishop of Durham, Tom Wright published his magisterial work The Resurrection of the Son of God. This volume of more than 800 pages is a monumental defence of the reality of the resurrection. Immensely learned and circumspect, the book impresses the reader with its academic and theological passion. In my view, Bishop Wright has succeeded in building a theological cathedral of illuminating historical insights, convincing and surprising exegetical observations, and thoroughly argued systematic conclusions. No prophetic intuition is needed to predict that this book will remain a classic among the writings which stimulate further thinking and discourse about this most important and highly controversial topic of faith.

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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , November 2007 , pp. 458 - 475
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2007

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References

1 References to this book in the text appear in brackets.

2 Cf. Michael Welker, ‘Theological Realism and Eschatological Symbol Systems: Resurrection, the Reign of God, and the Presence in Faith and in the Spirit’, in T. Peters, R. Russell and M. Welker (eds), Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002), pp. 31–42; in greater detail, ‘Die Wirklichkeit der Auferstehung’, in H.-J. Eckstein and M. Welker (eds), Die Wirklichkeit der Auferstehung (Neukirchen-Vluyn, Neukirchener, 3rd edn, 2007), pp. 311–31.

3 See J. Polkinghorne and M. Welker (eds), The End of the World and the Ends of God: Theology and Science on Eschatology (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press, 2000).

4 Francis Fiorenza, ‘The Resurrection of Jesus and Roman Catholic Fundamental Theology’, in S. T. Davis, D. Kendall and G. O'Collins (eds), The Resurrection: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Resurrection of Jesus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 213–48, 238ff.