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Anderson, Ray S. Theology, Death and Dying. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Anderson examines death from within the circle of faith in Jesus Christ who overcame death in the resurrection. His mindset is faith seeking understanding.
Barth, Karl. The Resurrection of the Dead. Translated by H. J. Stenning. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1933. An analysis of 1 Corinthians 15. Barth addresses the importance of 1 Corinthians in understanding the testimony of the New Testament. He argues that a misunderstanding of the resurrection underlies all the problems at Corinth.
Barth, Markus, and Verne H. Fletcher. Acquittal by Resurrection. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. This work focuses on the resurrection of Jesus Christ understood as the foundation of righteousness, justice, and salvation.
Benoit, Pierce, and Roland Murphy, ed. Immortality and Resurrection. New York: Herder and Herd-er, 1970. This collection contains articles on the resurrection of Christ as it relates to the meaning of life, Jesus' resurrection the ground for human resurrection, questions of details of the resurrection and the relevance of New Testament data to ascertain answers. There is tension between the opinions of the various authors.
Boliek, Lynn. The Resurrection of the Flesh. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962. A study disclosing what the early church actually meant in its confession of the resurrection of the flesh and how this creedal phrase functioned.
Bowen, Clayton R. The Resurrection in the New Testament. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1911. Bowen exegetes the texts dealing with the resurrection of Jesus and the future resurrection of Christians from the dead. This work is intended to provide readers with a thorough discussion of passages on the resurrection in the gospels and epistles.
Braaten, Carl. Eschatology and Ethics. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1974. Influenced by Pannenberg, Braaten enlarges the project of eschatological interpretation in theology to show that ethics are eschatologically based.
Braaten, Carl E. The Future of God: The Revolutionary Dynamics of Hope. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. A constructive, systematic outline of the theology of the future derived from the Christian vision of the Kingdom of God. Braaten shows how the Christian hope is grounded in the resurrection of Jesus understood as the power of the future beyond the finality of death.
Brown, Raymond E. A Risen Christ at Eastertime. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1991. Brown does a basic yet solid coverage of the gospel accounts.
Candlish, Robert S. Studies in First Corinthians 15. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1989. This is a reprint of a work originally published in 1863 as Life in a Risen Saviour. Candlish's purpose is not so much to expound 1 Corinthians 15 exegetically, but to illustrate the line of argument pursued in it, which is the bearing of the resurrection on the believer's spiritual and eternal life.
Carnley, Peter. The Structure of Resurrection Belief. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. A critical assessment of modern hermeneutics from a theological perspective.
Clark, Neville. Interpreting the Resurrection. London: SCM Press, 1967. Neville probes the foundation of the New Testament and is concerned with setting forth the faith in a way that will aid preaching, hearing, and understanding.
Clark, Theodore R. Saved by His Life: A Study of the New Doctrine of Reconciliation and Salvation. New York: Macmillan, 1959. Clark is a Southern Baptist who identifies problems in the standard account of soteriology which does not give adequate attention to the resurrection.
Cooper, John W. Body, Soul & Life Everlasting. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989. This book provides a discussion of the body and soul and how they bear on our personal beliefs and hopes in light of Old Testament anthropology, anthropology of intertestamental eschatology, New Testament eschatology, and philosophical anthropology.
Craig, William Lane. Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. Craig's work focuses on the historicity of the resurrection by looking at New Testament witnesses and evidence in the gospels. He seeks to provide an apologetic defense of the belief in the resurrection.
__________The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus during the Deist Controversy. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1985. Craig addresses the importance of the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus for the Christian faith which in the past has been obscured by dialectical and existential modes of thinking in theology.
Cullmann, Oscar. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead. The Witness of the New Testament. London: The Epworth Press, 1958. Cullmann contrasts the New Testament witness to the primitive Christian hope of the resurrection with the serene philosophical expectation of the survival of the immortal soul.
Davis, Stephen T. Risen Indeed: Making Sense of the Resurrection. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993. A Christian philosopher's unique examination of the ontology of resurrection.
De Boer, Martinus C. The Defeat of Death: Apocalyptic Eschatology in 1 Corinthians 1 and Romans 5. Sheffield: JSOT, 1988. Using the work of E. Käsemann and J. C. Beker as a point of departure, this work examines death, resurrection, and apocalyptic eschatology in ancient Hebrew texts and Paul's writings. Soteriological tensions such as "already" and "not yet" are examined in light of the findings.
Derrett, J. Duncan M. The Anastasis: The Resurrection of Jesus as an Historical Event. Warwickshire: P.Drinkwater, 1982. Derrett looks at the experience of Jesus by focusing on the term "anastasis" in light of the ancient Western world, the Jewish world, and the modern world. He also discusses the theology of the message of the disciples.
Durrwell, F. X. The Resurrection. Translated by Rosemary Sheed. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1960. A biblical study of the theology of the resurrection that also emphasizes the redemptive value of Christ's suffering.
Evans, C. F. Resurrection and the New Testament. Naperville: A. K. Allenson Inc., 1970. Approaching the resurrection from a biblical theology perspective, Evans looks at the resurrection tradition in Corinthians and the gospels. He includes discussion of the resurrection faith.
Evans, Ernest, ed. Tertullian's Treatise on the Resurrection. London: S.P.C.K., 1960. Evans' work discusses what Tertullian and his contemporaries thought about the resurrection and what argument they used to support their conviction. Evans restates the doctrine of the resurrection and of the final judgment which he sees as more acceptable to modern thought.
Fackre, Gabriel. The Christian Story: A Narrative Interpretation of Basic Christian Doctrine. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978. An investigation of basic doctrines in the Christian story by a systematic theologian.
Finger, Thomas N. Christian Theology: An Eschatological Approach. Vol. 1. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1985. A systematic theology based on eschatology that examines fundamental themes and wrestles with major issues including the resurrection.
Fuller, Daniel P. Easter Faith and History. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965. Fuller starts with the problems of historical method and studies the question of whether the event of the resurrection can be accepted and verified as history or whether it must simply be accepted as an object of faith. His book studies the manner in which this question has been discussed from the Age of Enlightenment through Campenhausen, Pannenberg, and the Dialectical Theology of today.
Fuller, Reginald H. The Formation of the Resurrrection Narratives. New York: Macmillan, 1971. Fuller gives a fundamental redaction-critical study of Paul and the gospel accounts with some coverage of later material.
Gaffin, Richard B. The Centrality of the Resurrection: A Study in Paul's Soteriology. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1978. Gaffin is a Reformed New Testament scholar who has become a systematic theologian. Discussing the change that has taken place in Reformed theology's interpretation of Paul's thought, Gaffin works at uncovering the basic structure of Paul's resurrection theology, showing that the central theme of Christ's resurrection governs the whole of Paul's theology.
Goppelt, Leonhard, Helmut Thielicke, and Hans-Rudolph Müller-Schwefe. The Easter Message Today. Translated by Salvator Attanasio and Darrell Likens Guder. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1964. Three essays written to help the pastor illumine the meaning of the resurrection in teaching, preaching, and counseling. Historical research, and reflective, systematic, and theological thought are used to address issues of contemporary life.
Habermas, Gary R. and Antony G. N. Flew. Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987. A debate between Habermas and Flew on the central issue of Christian doctrine and the question of whether the physical resurrection of Jesus must be accepted as a historical fact.
Harris, Murray J. From Grave to Glory. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990. A review of New Testament evidence for the resurrection, historical evidences for the resurrection, and the theological implications of the event.
__________Raised Immortal: Resurrection and Immortality in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983. A conservative New Testament exegete who has suffered the misfortunes of being targeted by conservative apologists for his explanations of the New Testament teaching about the nature of Christ's risen body.
Heim, Karl. Jesus the Lord: The Sovereign Authority of Jesus and God's Revelation in Christ. Translated by D. H. Van Daalen. London: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. Heim, writing in post World War II Tübingen, confronts his reader with the "either-or" decision that those who hear the gospel must face.
__________Jesus the World's Perfector: The Atonement and the Renewal of the World. Translated by D. H. Van Daalen. London: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. In light of the question of our destiny, Heim draws attention to the fact that God may have reasons for restraining power until judgment day and that the question of guilt must be solved first. He addresses the atonement, the place of the resurrection of Christ in the plan for perfecting the world, its meaning in our present lives, and the resurrection as distinguished from all events on our level.
__________The World: Its Creation and Consummation: The End of the Present Age and the Future of the World in the Light of the Resurrection. Translated by Robert Smith. London: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Heim looks at the end of the present age and the future of the world in light of the resurrection.
Hick, John H. Death and Eternal Life. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1976. Hick traces the belief in an afterlife from its beginnings to current rejections by humanists. This vast study surveys various religious traditions. It has a major section on Christian approaches to the after-life, exploring both New Testament views as well as important Christian thinkers.
Hoekema, Anthony A. The Bible and the Future. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979. Hoekema provides a thorough treatment of the biblical teaching on the future. The resurrection is dealt with in light of its centrality to the Bible's eschatological message. He tries to show that the incarnation and the bodily resurrection prove that the body is not evil but good.
Hooke, S. H. The Resurrection of Christ as History and Experience. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1967. Hooke attempts to arrive at the meaning of the resurrection of Christ for Christians today by looking at the wider background of religious ideas and speculations against which the belief in resurrection developed in Israel. He examines the accounts of the resurrection in the gospels as well as Paul's understanding.
Hughes-Games, J. On the Nature of the Resurrection Body. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1898. In this literal interpretation of scripture, Hughes-Games contemplates the world to come and the eternal future.
Jansen, John F. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ in New Testament Theology. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1980. Jansen is a New Testament scholar who proposes a theology of the resurrection which unifies the focus of the New Testament as a whole.
Kaiser, Otto and Eduard Lohse. Death and Life. Translated by John E. Steely. Nashville: Abingdon, 1981. Kaiser and Lohse examine the biblical texts on the grounds of expectation of the resurrection of the dead and the victory over death in Christ's resurrection. They consider death, resurrection, and immortality in the Old Testament and in early Judaism in a religio-historical context.
Kelsey, Morton. Resurrection: Release from Oppression. New York: Paulist Press, 1985. Kelsey presents a picture of the events of Easter Sunday and of the days following as the risen Christ met his disciples and friends. He intersperses the narrative with reflections and reactions to the events.
Kennedy, H. A. A. St. Paul's Conception of Last Things. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1904. Kennedy investigates Paul's eschatology in light of the religious concepts of the Old Testament. He sees Christ's resurrection as the basis for the inspiring prospect the apostle reached.
Kesich, Veselin. The First Day of the New Creation. Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1982. Kesich analyzes primitive Christian preaching about the resurrection. He deals with the works of modern exegetes as well as problems of a historical and exegetical character.
Küng, Hans. Eternal Life? Translated by Edward Quinn. London: Fount Paperbacks, 1985. Küng addresses death as an entry into light and surveys models of belief in eternity in various religions. He deals with the resurrection of the dead as a question that has tormented humanity from the beginning as well as with the difficulties of the resurrection.
Künneth, Walter. The Theology of the Resurrection. St. Louis: Concordia, 1956. Künneth writes of the redemptive significance of the resurrection from a Lutheran point of view. This is one of the most significant theologies of the resurrection.
Ladd, George Eldon. I Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975. Ladd looks at the Old Testament, contemporary Judaism, and the New Testament to find the ideas which account for the rise of the resurrection faith. He surveys modern historical explanations and the nature of the resurrection in the New Testament and evaluates its importance for the totality of biblical revelation.
Lampe, G. W. H. and D. M. Mackinnon. The Resurrection. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1966. A dialogue about the resurrection which seeks to provide understanding of the Easter gospel.
Lapide, Pinchas. The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective. Translated by Wilhelm Linss. Minne- apolis: Augsburg, 1983. A Jewish scholar situates the Christian belief in the resurrection within the Jewish understanding of apocalyptic messianism.
León-Dufour, Xavier. Life and Death in the New Testament. Translated by Terrence Prendergast. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. León-Dufour addresses how Jesus and Paul approached the fact of their own deaths and the deaths of others. He discusses the mystery of death through faith in the resurrection.
__________Resurrection and the Message of Easter. Translated by R. N. Wilson. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. A faith reply to a question of fact-did Christ rise? He faces the problem of language and the way in which we may express the significance of the resurrection event in the present day.
Martin-Achard, Robert. From Death to Life. Translated by John Penney Smith. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1960. A study of the development of the doctrine of the resurrection in the Old Testament. Martin-Achard looks at passages which illustrate the emergence of the doctrine in ancient Israel and early Judaism.
Marxsen, Willi. The Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1970. This is an influential essay that attempts to interpret the resurrection in modern terms.
__________Jesus and Easter: Did God Raise the Historical Jesus from the Dead? Translated by Victor Paul Furnish. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990. Marxen takes readers step by step through the important and intricate issues involved in the title. He articulately discusses the consequences of historical and exegetical studies for theology, the church, and lives of individual Christians.
Milligan, William. The Resurrection of Our Lord. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1917. Milligan emphasizes the full importance of the truth of the resurrection as a miracle of a new creation within God's overall plan for the world.
Minear, Paul S. To Die and to Live: Christ's Resurrection and Christian Vocation. New York: The Seabury Press, 1977. Minear asserts that all Christian vocation is derived from the "twin event". He uses five main texts to illumine this idea: Acts 3:15, Gal. 6:14-15, Eph. 3:8-10, John 17:20-24, Mark 13:24-27.
Moltmann, Jürgen. The Theology of Hope. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. This is a reinterpretation of the doctrine of eschatology as a doctrine of hope. He shows the cross and the resurrection as the New Testament expression of revelation.
Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth. The Women around Jesus. Translated by John Bowden. London: SCM Press, 1982. Simple but profound reflections on the events from the women's perspectives.
Morison, Frank. Who Moved the Stone? London: The Century Co., 1930. Morison, a lawyer wrestling with his own skepticism, wrote a very different book than he set out to write. The facts have not changed, but his interpretation of them did after an intensive examination.
Moule, C. F. D. The Significance of the Message of the Resurrection for Faith in Jesus Christ. Translated by Dorthea M. Barton and R. A. Wilson. Naperville: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., 1968. Four essays by German scholars which lead the reader through closely reasoned investigations of the scope and limits of the New Testament evidence for the Easter faith.
Murray, G. R. Beasley. Christ is Alive! London: Lutterworth Press, 1947. A critical estimate of historical evidence and an exposition of lessons drawn from the New Testament.
Niebuhr, Richard R. Resurrection and Historical Reason. New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1957. An attempt to understand the connection between the biblical proclamation of the resurrection of Christ and the order of theological thought. Niebuhr examines historical consciousness in light of the Church's history.
O'Collins, Gerald. Interpreting the Resurrection: Examining the Major Problems in the Stories of Jesus' Resurrection. New York: Paulist Press, 1988. This brief work examines major problems that arise from the testimony of Paul and the gospel writers. He approaches these questions "through the head, the hands and the heart".
__________Jesus Risen: An Historical, Fundamental and Systematic examination of Christ's Resurrection. New York: Paulist Press, 1987. This major work is an exercise of "Easter faith seeking understanding" written from a scholar's perspective. O'Collins provides a comprehensive survey of the questions dealing with the resurrection, including the thought of 20th century European theologians. He discusses the meaning of the resurrection for Christian life.
__________The Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1973. A critical survey of recent scholarship on the resurrection as examined under history, faith, and theology. It includes critiques of Bultmann, Marxsen, Lampe, and Geering.
__________What are they Saying about the Resurrection? New York: Paulist Press, 1978. O'Collins provides a concise overview of the current interpretations of the resurrection and evaluates their strengths and weaknesses.
O'Donovan, Oliver. Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986. This is one of the most significant recent works on the resurrection, especially because of the way it bases ethical thinking and living on the resurrection.
Orr, James. The Resurrection of Jesus. New York: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. A capable theologian of the last century who was well aware of exegetical and doctrinal issues and who sought historical truth and the implications for the believer and the unbeliever.
Osborne, Grant R. The Resurrection Narratives. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1984. A redactional study of the accounts of the resurrection through the eyes of each evangelist. Osborne brings out the distinctive theological emphasis of each.
Perkins, Pheme. Resurrection: New Testament Witness and Contemporary Reflection. Garden City: Doubleday, 1984. Perkins provides a thoughtful investigation of belief in the resurrection in the Old Testament and Judaism and in the New Testament documents. She deals with the centrality of the proclamation of Jesus' resurrection in the earliest preaching of the gospel.
Perrin, Norman. The Resurrection According to Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977. Perrin examines the resurrection of Jesus in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke to explore what each evangelist is attempting to communicate to the reader.
Peters, Ted. God-the World's Future: Systematic Theology for a Postmodern Era. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992. This major work explicates a coherent scheme for organizing Christian doctrine and theology. In an ecumenical spirit, Peters examines Christian symbols and faith in order to explain the proleptic expectation of the gospel, i.e, that Jesus Christ is the future made present.
Plöger, Otto. Theocracy and Eschatology. Translated by S. Rudman. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968. Plöger devotes part of his work to the book of Daniel's idea of a double resurrection-some to eternal life and others to eternal shame. He draws connections to Israel and the revival of the people of God.
Ramsey, A. M. The Resurrection of Christ. London: Collins Clear Type Press, 1961. A study by the Archbishop of Canterbury on the place of the resurrection in Christian life and thought. This simple yet scholarly account includes historical evidence for the event in relation to modern critical studies.
Russell, Elizabeth and John Greenhalgh, ed. 'If Christ be not risen . . . ': Essays in Resurrection and Survival. London: St. Mary's, 1986. The concern of these essays is to emphasize the idea that eternal life is still as much a legitimate concern of Christian thought as it was in the original preaching of the faith and to redress the balance of our understanding of the gospel by a focus on death.
Schillebeeckx, Edward. Jesus: An Experiment in Christology. New York: Crossroad, 1981. Schillebeeckx provides extensive exegetical study within a classic christological work.
Schep, J. A. The Nature of the Resurrection Body. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964. His work investigates scriptural data concerning the resurrection body of Christ and of believers in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Schottroff, Luise. Let the Oppressed Go Free: Feminist Perspectives on the New Testament. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993. Schottroff provides an exegetical examination of the women in the Easter narratives.
Simpson, W. J. Sparrow. The Resurrection and Modern Thought. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911. Simpson provides a major treatment of the theology and history of the doctrine of the resurrection. He focuses on the theology of the resurrection as expounded by Paul and the physical resurrection of individuals as traced from the Apostolic age to modern days.
Smith, Robert H. Easter Gospels: The Resurrection of Jesus According to the Four Evangelists. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1983. This work focuses on how each of the canonical gospels uses the shared Christian tradition of the resurrection of Jesus. Smith gives a verse by verse commentary of each account, explores the situation of the evangelists, and summarizes their views of Easter.
Stendahl, Krister, ed. Immortality and Resurrection. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. Four essays by other scholars investigating to what degree the New Testament affirms belief in immortality or in resurrection. Stendahl provides an introduction.
Stanley, David M. Christ's Resurrection in Pauline Soteriology. Rome: Pontificio Institute Biblico, 1961. Stanley does for Roman Catholics what Gaffin does for evangelicals, namely, help them recover the soteriological function of resurrection.
Stewart, James S. A Man in Christ. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1936. Union with Christ rather than justification or eschatology is the real clue to understanding Paul's thought and experience. Stewart gives a fresh study of the New Testament to discover the central ideas of Christianity and to emphasize the resurrection as God's act and God's power.
Swain, Lionel. The People of the Resurrection. Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1986. Swain shows the resurrection is a metaphor for the destiny of Christ and the faithful.
__________Reading the Easter Gospels. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1993. Approaching the gospels as stories, Swain uses reader response criticism to examine the texts to avoid misunderstanding regarding the paschal mystery of Christ. He writes with both the specialist and nonspecialist in mind.
Tenney, Merrill C. The Reality of the Resurrection. New York: Harper and Row, 1963. A conservative New Testament scholar of the last generation who looked at the historical, experiential, and theological dimensions of the resurrection.
Torrance, Thomas F. Space, Time and Resurrection. Edinburgh: The Handsel Press, 1976. Torrance gives a theological interpretation of the Easter message of the New Testament writers taken as a whole. While the book deals with some important scientific and philosophical questions in regard to resurrection and ascension, its core is concerned with the evangelical message of the resurrection.
Vos, Geerhardus. The Pauline Eschatology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1953. Geerhardus deals with the subject of the resurrection change and how it affects believers along with the implications for humanity and the question of whether human resurrection is distinct from the process of the resurrection of Christ.
Wenham, John. Easter Enigma. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984. Wenham reconstructs and draws together pieces of New Testament information to show the possibility of harmonizing the resurrection accounts into a comprehensive historical sequence.
Westcott, Brooke Foss. The Gospel of the Resurrection: Thoughts on its Relation to Reason and History. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. Westcott shows the conception of Christianity as Christ's sovereignty and the resurrection as the power and motivation required for a life of sacrifice and hope.
Wilckens, Ulrich. Resurrection. Translated by A. M. Stewart. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1977. A New Testament investigation of biblical sources and texts behind belief in the resurrection. Wilckens treats the resurrection in the New Testament, the significance of the resurrection concept, and the proclamation of the resurrection in the New Testament.
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