Resurrection Logic is a remarkable work of scholarship—original, enlightening, and saturated with spiritual insight.
~Bernhard Lang, author of The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity
Resurrection Logic is a study that will be required reading not only for audiences interested in the specific question of the science of resurrection among Jesus’ disciples but for anyone who wants to understand the evolutionary processes through which the thinking of Jesus’ earliest followers developed—both in the period of the New Testament and in the centuries following— into systems of theology, and scholarship on theology.
~Alan Avery-Peck, Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross
Chilton is an able guide, showing that how early followers came to believe in Jesus’ resurrection reveals deep changes in ideas about cosmology, the nature of being human, and their experience of reality. So, too, can this book challenge contemporary readers to make richer sense of their own thinking about life, death, and belief.
~Claudia Setzer, Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College
…a rewarding and thought-provoking study.
~Donald Senior, The Bible Today
…engaging, beautiful, and balanced.
~Glenn B. Siniscalchi, Catholic Biblical Quarterly
This is a wide-ranging and bold contribution to the study of Jesus’ resurrection and covers a huge amount of ground. Many have already drawn attention to the diversity within the New Testament on the resurrection, but Chilton’s use of the witnesses in 1 Corinthians 15:1–11 as a framework for exploring different accounts provides a fresh angle. His treatment makes for fascinating reading and, to my knowledge, is highly original.
~Scottish Journal of Theology
Resurrection Logic is a real advance on the standard binary between ‘spiritual’ and ‘physical’ conceptions of the resurrection of Christ. Resurrection Logic is, by its own design, not a study of that event itself but of the human agency reacting to the event that stands at the very heart of Christian faith—then and now—and just in this is its brilliance. It demands close reading from every biblical scholar and theologian interested in the resurrection of Jesus.
~Stephen Edward Harris, Journal of Theological Studies
Chilton’s book is an innovative approach to fascinating questions and belongs in the library of any scholar interested in the New Testament’s account of Jesus’s resurrection.
~John Granger Cook, Review of Biblical Literature
…this resourceful study is highly recommended to all who are interested in the development of early Christian beliefs about the resurrection of Jesus.
~Lidija Novakovic, Modern Believing
