Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead? A Historical Investigation | Father Isaac Morales, O.P.

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 15th, 2023 at the University of Rochester. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his Ph.D., he taught in the Department of Theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 2011-12, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. Isaac was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018. He has taught at Providence since August of the same year.

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0:00.0	Thank you. Thanks, Cole, for the invitation. Thank you all for being here this afternoon.
0:03.3	I'm impressed at how many people are here on a beautiful, it's slightly toasty, Saturday afternoon.
0:09.2	It's probably not how I would have spent a Saturday afternoon when I was in college,
0:12.8	but I'm grateful for you all being here. Happy Easter. I hope you all know, we're still in Easter.
0:18.6	For Catholics, the Easter lasts eight days.
0:25.9	And the Eastern Church has this great greeting where you say to something, Christ has risen,
0:28.4	do you all know this? And the response is indeed he has risen.
0:33.7	I can think of no more fitting time to talk about this topic then during the Easter octave,
0:37.1	because the resurrection is at the very heart. It was at the very heart of the early
0:38.6	Christian preaching and it's at the very heart of the Christian faith today. In the first letter
0:44.5	to the Corinthian, St. Paul writes, if for this life only we have hoped in Christ, then we are
0:50.3	of all people most to be pitied. And in the verses leading up to that statement, he says,
0:56.1	and I'm paraphrasing, if Christ is not raised,
0:59.3	then Christianity is a sham.
1:01.6	Your faith is pointless.
1:03.2	You're still on your sins.
1:05.1	We're a bunch of liars.
1:06.9	And your loved ones who have died are gone.
1:10.4	And that's it.
1:12.1	So a lot hangs on whether Jesus actually rose from the dead.
1:16.6	And you will not be surprised here that I think you really did.
1:19.5	And what I want to do this afternoon is to give you some reasons for why I think that
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