The Day Death Died [Paperback]

Michael Green (Author)

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• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press (March 17, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 085110438X
• ISBN-13: 978-0851104386
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A CONCISE APOLOGETIC FOR THE RESURRECTION BY AN ANGLICAN THEOLOGIAN, February 22, 2010

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This review is from: The Day Death Died (Paperback)

Edward Michael Bankes Green (who writes as "Michael Green") is a British theologian, Anglican priest, and Christian apologist. Green has generated some controversy more recently by coming out against the traditional idea of Hell as "eternal torment" (see his 1989 book, Evangelism Through the Local Church).

This 1982 book is a revision of Green's 1967 book, Man Alive! (Pocket Books). In the introduction to TDDD, Green states, "The (1967) book is out of date now because the illustrative matter it contains was highly contemporary. But the need remains. People continue to ask two questions of the resurrection story: Is it true? and Does it matter? So I set out to revise 'Man Alive!' but decided instead that a fresh book on the same theme would be more useful. Only a small amount of the original material appears in these pages."

Here are some excerpts from the book:

"granted the importance of the Easter faith, what was the Easter fact that gave rise to it?"
"the antiquity of this testimony is impressive. It is written between twenty and sixty years after the event, all the different strands of it. And that is very early by ancient reckoning."
"It is no easier to harmonize all the details of the resurrection accounts than it is to reconcile accounts of the same event in eight different newspapers. But had the early Christians been making it all up they would have made sure that their stories tallied. They would have ensured that the appearances were either all of a spiritual Jesus or of a resuscitated, tangible Jesus, not a curious mixture of the two.... These stories were not made up."
"a spiritual ressurection would make nonsense of the claim ... that the resurrection took place on the third day."
"The very way (Paul) spoke about THE BODY in resurrection shows that he knew about the empty tomb."
"What else can explain the Christian conviction that Jesus is Lord? The earliest Christians, all of them Jews, were the most ardent of monotheists. Yet they acclaimed Jesus as divine."
"Jesus' brothers did not believe in him... But James too met with the risen Jesus. And he was dramatically changed by that encounter."

This tightly-argued book will be of great interest for anyone interested in Christian apologetics.