Early Christian Controversies About Jesus' Resurrection

Episode Outline:
00:00 – Introducing Easter, the resurrection, and early Christian debates
01:56 – What resurrection meant in the ancient world
03:26 – Ancient resurrection versus modern Christian afterlife beliefs
06:10 – Resurrection stories in Jewish and pagan traditions
08:43 – New Testament evidence for different resurrection views
10:44 – Paul’s view of the resurrection and the “spiritual body”
16:35 – Resurrection in the Gospels: body, spirit, or reanimated corpse?
22:52 – Gnostics, Marcionites, and alternative views of Jesus’ resurrection
31:06 – How pagan authors criticized bodily resurrection
38:13 – What happens between death and resurrection?

Episode Description
With Easter fast approaching, the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus are on the minds of many Christians. While it has been a lynch-pin in Christian theology since the formation of the religion, Christians - both early and modern - disagree on how it happened, why it happened, and the implications it has for human life after death. Today, Dr. Bart Ehrman elucidates us all on early debates around the resurrection, why these debates happened, and what pagan authors thought about the whole thing.

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