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While its companion volume, The Resurrection in Retrospect, addresses the inadequacies of an approach to the Resurrection of Christ purely as an event of past historical time, The Reconstruction of Resurrection Belief articulates an alternative understanding of Resurrection faith as essentially a response of trust based upon a knowledge by acquaintance with the living presence of Christ today.
In the hope that it may have some traction in an increasingly secular world of contemporary scientific realism, Carnley demonstrates an understanding of the nature of Resurrection faith in the language of today, with as much logical coherence as possible, and explains how the claim that the animating Spirit of the Christian community that Saint Paul spoke of as ¿the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus¿ (Rom 8:2) may be justifiably identified in faith today as ¿the living presence of Jesus of Nazareth.¿
About the author
Peter Carnley was Archbishop of Perth, Western Australia, from 1981 to 2005, and Primate of Australia from 2000 to 2005. He was educated at Trinity College, Melbourne; and at Emmanuel College and St. John¿s College, University of Cambridge. He taught at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane. His books include A Kind of Retirement (Wipf & Stock, 2016), Reflections in Glass (2004), and The Structure of Resurrection Belief (1987).
