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Title: Resurrection of Jesus: History, Experience, Theology by Gerd Ludemann, Gerd Luedemann, John Bowden ISBN: 0-8006-2792-X Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Worth reading, if only to understand why he's wrong
Comment: Luedemann's work is fair to middling, at best.
This tome is something of an aporetic description of what "must have happened" in place of the traditional description of the rise of the Christian faith.
Paul was really a nice guy, but felt like he couldn't be that way until he was around Christians (who he felt guilty for persecuting), so his brain cooked up an image of a dead guy who he'd never met who made him feel all warm and fuzzy (and psychosomatically blind for a while). He decided then that the image he saw was none other than the Son of God, the Resurrected Messiah. This explanation works as long as you believe that Paul was insane. We have no other evidence to support that thesis, though.
Peter was just another disciple of Jesus who ran off when he was arrested. He felt so guilty about Jesus' death, however, that his brain cooked up a vision of his dead teacher which inspired him to found the church at Jerusalem. He ended up fighting with James who also felt guilty so (can you see a pattern here?)his brain cooked up an image of his dead brother.
Pentecost? The appearance to 500 mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15? Luedemann kills two birds with one stone here. Both legends are based on one common group hallucination in which people had a really good time and felt like Jesus was there with them, kind of like if they had played a live version of "Truckin'" at Jerry Garcia's funeral.
Luedemann claims to be an historian. He is not. Rather, he is a speculator.
He claims that depth psychology can be of use to biblical interpreters. Psychology is far too amorphous and unreliable for historical interpretation. Here's why:
Herr Luedemann could sit across the table from me and ask me as many questions as he would like about whatever topic he felt needed his attention, and he would never have the slightest idea of what was going on in my mind, except through the matrix of whatever the latest in psychology could theorize.
Now, let me write down something that may take a few hours to compose and wait two millenia, then let him say what was going on in my head. Good luck, Gerd.
His book fails because his methodology and tools are flawed and, in the end, it takes less faith to believe that Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead than it does to believe that Jungian psychology can accurately interpret the human mind.
Rating: 5
Summary: Love it or hate it, a must-have book on the resurrection
Comment: Written in 1994 while Professor Leudemann was still a Christian, this book caused such a storm of protest in Germany that the original publisher declined to publish a second impression. But the same honesty which made the book so controversial is also what makes it so valuable. Leudemann decided to write this book because he was dissatisfied with so much of what he read, and therefore the book is a comprehensive treatment of the resurrection. He systematically surveys all of the passages in the New Testament which pertain to the Resurrection, beginning with 1 Corinthians 15 and ending with the last chapter of John. In each instance, Leudemann writes like a sober historian, carefully considering each passage from a redactional, traditional, and critical historical perspective. Leudemann argues that the tomb stories are late--Jesus may have received a dishonorable burial--and likewise the appearance stories are largely legendary. But *something* did happen. Leudemann skillfully extracts as much information as possible about that something from Paul's often cryptic statements, in order to formulate his own hypothesis as to how Christianity began. Whether one one agrees, disagrees, or suspends judgment about Leudemann's hypothesis, all serious students of the Resurrection narratives will want to be familiar with this important book. My only complaint about the book is the lack of a bibliography and detailed indices (e.g., NT verses, subject, author).
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Title: Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann by Walter Brueggemann, Anna Carter Florence ISBN: 0800636465 Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment?: A Debate Between William Lane Craig and Gerd Ludemann by William Lane Craig, Ronald Tacelli, Paul Copan, Gerd Ludemann ISBN: 0830815694 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, 3) by N. T. Wright ISBN: 0800626796 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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Title: Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes by Walter Brueggemann ISBN: 0664222315 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg ISBN: 0060526769 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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