The movement of the earth and the resurrection

Faith MattersPhilosophical
Written By Edward Wolfe

During the middle ages, people didn't typically believe the earth moved.  The notion that it both revolved around the sun and that it rotated at the same time seemed hopelessly complicated and untidy.  Even so, a few natural philosophers (we'd call them scientists today), such as Nicole Oresme (c. 1325-1382), believed that the complicated movement was, in fact, the truth (James Hannam, The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution, pp. 182ff). 

Similarly, Jesus's resurrection from the dead seems equally preposterous.  When people die, they stay dead, so the thinking goes.  And yet, just as anomalies in the sky eventually demanded that we acknowledge the revolution and rotation of the earth, historical and contemporary facts demand that we consider his resurrection a reality.  Yes, dead people stay dead.  That's kind of the point.  His resurrection is amazing, even earth-shattering. 

Next week I'll look at some of the reasons I believe it to be literally true. 

Note: This is the first post in a blog series I'm calling "Faith Matters."  I intend to look at topics related to Christian evidences, book reviews, and aesthetic evidences that Jesus is real and the Bible is true. 

Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe has been a fan of Christian apologetics since his teenage years, when he began seriously to question the truth of the Bible and the reality of Jesus. About twenty years ago, he started noticing that Christian evidences roughly fell into five categories, the five featured on this website.
Although much of his professional life has been in Christian circles (12 years on the faculties of Pacific Christian College, now a part of Hope International University, and Manhattan Christian College and also 12 years at First Christian Church of Tempe), much of his professional life has been in public institutions (4 years at the University of Colorado and 19 years at Tempe Preparatory Academy).
His formal academic preparation has been in the field of music. His bachelor degree was in Church Music with a minor in Bible where he studied with Roger Koerner, Sue Magnusson, Russel Squire, and John Rowe; his master’s was in Choral Conducting where he studied with Howard Swan, Gordon Paine, and Roger Ardrey; and his doctorate was in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature, where he also studied group dynamics, humanistic psychology, and Gestalt theory with Guy Duckworth.
He and his wife Louise have four grown children and six grandchildren.

https://WolfeMusicEd.com
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