Life in the Face of Death: the Resurrection Message of the New Testament

Brief Description: This volume, written by eleven first-class scholars, brings into focus the resurrection message of the New Testament, showing how the resurrection both provides the basis for joyful living now and for belief in a future after death. Publisher Marketing: This book brings into focus the resurrection message of the New Testament. The chapters demonstrate how the resurrection both provides the basis for joyful living now despite the shadow of death and undergirds the Christian belief in a future after death.

Contributor Bio:  Longenecker, Richard N Richard N. Longenecker is Ramsey Armitage Professor of New Testament, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. He receivec the B. A. and M. A. degrees from Wheaton College and Wheaton Graduate School of Theology, respectively, and the Ph. D. from New College, University of Edinburgh. His principal publications include Paul, Apostle of Liberty (1964), The Christology of Early Jewish Christianity (1970), The Ministry and Message of Paul (1971), Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period (1975), The Acts of the Apostles in The Expositor s Bible Commentary (1981), and The New Testament Social Ethics for Today (1984).