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Adoptionism
[Doctrine & Theology]Adoptionism is the Christological view that Jesus was originally an ordinary man who was "adopted" as the Son of God at his baptism or resurrection. Since the early church, orthodox Christianity has rejected it as heretical.
Union with Christ
[Doctrine & Theology]Union with Christ is the Christian teaching that believers are joined to Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit and thereby share in his death and resurrection, his righteousness, and his life.
Immortality of the Soul
[Doctrine & Theology]The immortality of the soul is the belief that even after a person dies and the body decays, the soul does not cease to exist but continues to exist. Many denominations teach it alongside belief in the resurrection, though views differ on its basis and on how it should be expressed.
Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ
[Doctrine & Theology]The humiliation and exaltation of Christ is a Christological term referring jointly to the state in which Jesus Christ was made low by becoming man, even unto death (humiliation), and the state in which he was raised high, from his resurrection to his place at the right hand of God (exaltation).
Salome
[People]Salome was a female disciple who followed Jesus from Galilee. According to the Gospel of Mark, she watched the crucifixion and went to the tomb with spices on the morning of the resurrection.
Gospel of Peter
[Bible]The Gospel of Peter is an ancient Greek gospel bearing the name of the apostle Peter. It is not part of the biblical canon, and only a fragment dealing with the passion and resurrection of Jesus survives.
Gospel of Nicodemus
[Bible]The Gospel of Nicodemus is an ancient Christian text that recounts the trial, death, and resurrection of Jesus and his descent into Hades. It is a New Testament apocryphal work not included in the canon and is also known as the Acts of Pilate.
Hymenaeus
[People]Hymenaeus was a figure in the early church whose name appears in 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy. Paul mentions him as one who "made shipwreck" concerning the faith and taught "that the resurrection is past already."
Philetus
[People]Philetus was a figure in the early church named alongside Hymenaeus in 2 Timothy 2:17. Scripture records that he taught "that the resurrection is past already" and thereby overthrew the faith of some.
Mary the Mother of James
[People]One of the women who followed Jesus from Galilee and ministered to him, she witnessed his crucifixion and burial and went to the empty tomb on the morning of the resurrection.
Wolfhart Pannenberg
[People]Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928–2014) was a German Lutheran systematic theologian. He advanced the concept of "revelation as history," holding that God's revelation is disclosed through history as a whole, and he argued that the resurrection of Jesus was a historical event.
Leo Tolstoy
[People]Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian novelist and religious and moral thinker, the author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Resurrection. He interpreted the teachings of Jesus as a call to nonviolence and nonresistance, and after criticizing the church he was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901.
Psalm 16
[Bible]Psalm 16, titled "Michtam of David," is a psalm of trust confessing that the LORD alone is the psalmist's good and inheritance and that the LORD will not abandon him even in the face of death. The New Testament cites it as testimony to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Christian Funeral
[Christian Life]A Christian funeral is a funeral that a church conducts with the bereaved family when a church member dies, confessing together the hope of the resurrection. In Korean churches it proceeds through a sequence of deathbed, encoffining, departure, and committal services.
Gospels
[Bible]The Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), which record the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Together they are called the four Gospels.
Ezekiel 37:4–5
[Bible Verses]A command given in a vision to prophesy the word of the LORD to the dry bones, with God's promise: "Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live." A vision of Israel's restoration, the passage is also widely used as a symbol of resurrection and spiritual revival, and interpreters differ over what the vision's fulfillment is.
Feast of Firstfruits
[Bible]The Feast of Firstfruits was an Old Testament rite, described in Leviticus 23:9-14, in which the first sheaf of the spring barley harvest was waved before the LORD. It served as the starting point for counting the date of the Feast of Weeks and is often read in connection with the New Testament description of Christ's resurrection as the "firstfruits."
Triduum
[Feasts & Seasons]The Triduum (Korean *seongsamil*, "holy three days") is a season of the church year that, from the evening of Maundy Thursday to the evening of Easter Sunday, commemorates as one continuous whole the Last Supper of Jesus Christ, his passion and death, his burial, and his resurrection.
Joanna
[People]Joanna is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward. She ministered to Jesus and his disciples out of her own means and was one of the women who brought news of the empty tomb to the apostles on the morning of the resurrection.
Spices
[Bible]In the Bible, "spices" is a general term for aromatic plant substances. Scripture associates them with the holy anointing oil and incense of the tabernacle, with royal treasuries and gifts, and with burial, and they appear in the accounts of Jesus' burial and the morning of his resurrection.