Resurrection in Context: The Strangeness of Early Christian Claims | Prof. Matthew Thomas

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 8, 2022 at the University of California, Berkeley. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Matthew J. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA, and an Instructor in Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. He holds a D.Phil in New Testament and Patristics from the University of Oxford, and is the author of Paul's 'Works of the Law' in the Perspective of Second-Century Reception (Mohr Siebeck, 2018; IVP, 2020), which received the Jesus Creed "Book of the Year" award for 2018. Matthew and his wife Leeanne live in the Bay Area with their children Camille, Raphael, Michael and Agnes, who are also aspiring theologians.

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0:11.5	So what we're looking at isn't necessarily the subjective aspect of resurrection,
0:17.3	which is to say how it is that resurrection affects us, how we live differently
0:22.6	in light of the resurrection. It's just looking at this insofar as we can historically,
0:26.8	trying to investigate it historically. The main source that we're using for this evening is
0:32.0	this very good book by someone called NT, right? He is a very fine new testament scholar. This is a book called
0:38.8	Resurrection of the Son of God. It is a book that a lot of people have it read because it's like
0:43.6	700, something long. People really like read books these days. I've read the action by the law.
0:49.9	It was more than 700 pages long. It 800. Yeah. All right. All right.
0:55.0	All right.
0:55.9	Take it back.
0:57.1	So there's one Berkeley student who's doing stuff.
0:59.7	She happens to be seven years old.
1:02.3	So it's a big long book.
1:05.5	It's incredible, fantastic.
1:07.8	I have a huge amount of appreciation for write and his work. He's taught me a lot. He's probably, he, fantastic. I have a huge amount of appreciation for write in his work as someone
1:12.4	who's taught me a lot. He's probably, whoa, that was scary. He also wrote an endorsement
1:17.2	in my book, which probably single-handedly sold like half of the copies of it that have been
1:20.8	sold. So I have appreciation for him on those grounds as well. What we're going to, oh no,
1:27.3	wow, this is a disaster. That was really
1:29.7	cute how you do that, buddy. This is, I'm just, I hope that the people who are listening to this
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