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| The Resurrection of Jesus: The Crossan-Wright Dialogue | 
 enlarge | Creator: Robert B. Stewart
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 188416
Media: Paperback
Pages: 220
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0281058113
EAN: 9780281058112
ASIN: 0281058113
Publication Date: January 20, 2006
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Short changed on the resurrection of Jesus ? May 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a bit of a cheat, frankly, to subtitle this work `John Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright in dialogue', when only one-sixth of the book is actually that. Once the dialogue - which never really gets going - is over, what emerges is a series of essays on aspects of the resurrection. On this, Wright is a critical realist - he holds that the Gospels themselves are to an extent historical sources, amenable to careful critical appraisal using the tools of scholarship. He therefore believes that an analysis of them allows us to state with confidence that something much along the lines of what is described in them probably happened at the resurrection. For Crossan on the other hand, the resurrection - probably not a fact-based account - has meaning today, whatever it was trying to convey at the time of writing. This distinction is memorably formulated in Crossan's dictum that `Emmaus never happened. Emmaus always happens'. Contrasting positions indeed. Few of the contributing authors support Crossan unreservedly, though Alan Segal, from a Jewish perspective is - perhaps unsurprisingly - concerned to argue for the resurrection as a faith-based concept rather than one rooted squarely in history.
The overall tenor of the essays makes the book, in the end, look like a cloak - an excuse - for an exercise in doctrinaire conservatism. There are some good contributions - Charles Quarles' argument for the late composition of the Gospel of Peter, for example, some helpful clarification of the two scholars' respective methodologies from Bob Stewart, and some helpful reminders of the future, `new creation' dimension of the resurrection (Ted Peters). But the rest is pretty unimaginative and predictable. I'm not sure we learn anything new about either author's position from this `dialogue', and readers new to their thought would be better starting with their earlier works, where each speaks for himself without the sometimes dubious benefit of `interpreters'.
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