Alan Robson
Born
in The United Kingdom
October 01, 1955
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“Hellenistic religion aimed to provide just such aids to liberation from the bodily existence of this world, together with the promise that at death one’s soul would finally be released from the body to find its perfect happiness - its ‘salvation’ - in that eternal world.”
― The Resurrection of Jesus: The Origins of the Tradition and its Meaning for Today
― The Resurrection of Jesus: The Origins of the Tradition and its Meaning for Today
“To speak of Jesus as the Messiah or Son of Man of the End-time would have made no sense at all; and, as we have already seen (ch.10), the resurrection of the body was a wholly alien idea.”
― The Resurrection of Jesus: The Origins of the Tradition and its Meaning for Today
― The Resurrection of Jesus: The Origins of the Tradition and its Meaning for Today
“They believed that there were in a sense two worlds, this world of space and time and an ‘eternal’ world, a world outside of space and time, an ideal world (world of ideas) as Plato had expressed it.”
― The Resurrection of Jesus: The Origins of the Tradition and its Meaning for Today
― The Resurrection of Jesus: The Origins of the Tradition and its Meaning for Today
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