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Vision theory of Jesus' appearances, the Glossary

The vision theory or vision hypothesis is a term used to cover a range of theories that question the physical resurrection of Jesus, and suggest that sightings of a risen Jesus were visionary experiences, often classified as grief or bereavement visions.^[1]

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A. N. Sherwin-White

Adrian Nicolas Sherwin-White, FBA (10 August 1911 – 1November 1993) was a British academic and ancient historian.

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Albert Réville

Albert Réville (4 November 1826, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime25 October 1906) was a distinguished French Protestant theologian, known for his 'extremist' liberal views.

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C. H. Dodd

Charles Harold Dodd (7 April 1884 – 21 September 1973) was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian.

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Celsus

Celsus (Κέλσος, Kélsos) was a 2nd-century Greek philosopher and opponent of early Christianity.

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Christian apologetics

Christian apologetics (ἀπολογία, "verbal defense, speech in defense") is a branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity.

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Christophany

A Christophany is an appearance or non-physical manifestation of Christ.

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Cognitive dissonance

In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental disturbance people feel when their cognitions and actions are inconsistent or contradictory.

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Dale Allison

Dale C. Allison Jr. (born November 25, 1955) is a writer and historian whose areas of expertise include the historical Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew, Second Temple Jewish literature, and the history of the interpretation and reception of the Bible.

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David Strauss

David Friedrich Strauss (Strauß; 27 January 1808 – 8 February 1874) was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he explored via myth.

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Doubting Thomas

A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience – a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus's crucifixion wounds.

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Emmaus

Emmaus (Greek: Ἐμμαούς, Emmaous; Emmaus; عمواس, ʻImwas) is a town mentioned in the Gospel of Luke of the New Testament.

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Epiphany (feeling)

An epiphany (from the ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια, epiphanea, "manifestation, striking appearance") is an experience of a sudden and striking realization.

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Ernest Renan

Joseph Ernest Renan (27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic.

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First Epistle to the Corinthians

The First Epistle to the Corinthians (Α΄ ᾽Επιστολὴ πρὸς Κορινθίους) is one of the Pauline epistles, part of the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

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Gary Habermas

Gary Robert Habermas (born June 28, 1950) is an American New Testament scholar and theologian who frequently writes and lectures on the resurrection of Jesus.

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Géza Vermes

Géza Vermes, (22 June 1924 – 8 May 2013) was a British academic, Biblical scholar, and Judaist of Jewish–Hungarian descent—one who also served as a Roman Catholic priest in his youth—and scholar specialized in the field of the history of religion, particularly ancient Judaism and early Christianity.

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George Park Fisher

George Park Fisher (August 10, 1827 – December 20, 1909) was an American theologian and historian who was noted as a teacher and a prolific writer.

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Gerd Lüdemann

Gerd Lüdemann (July 5, 1946 – May 23, 2021) was a German biblical scholar and historian.

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Helmut Koester

Helmut Heinrich Koester (December 18, 1926 – January 1, 2016) was an American scholar who specialized in the New Testament and early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School.

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Historical Jesus

The term "historical Jesus" refers to the life and teachings of Jesus as interpreted through critical historical methods, in contrast to what are traditionally religious interpretations.

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Historicity of Jesus

The historicity of Jesus is the question of whether Jesus historically existed (as opposed to being a purely mythological figure).

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James, brother of Jesus

James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord (Iacobus from יעקב, and Ἰάκωβος,, can also be Anglicized as "Jacob"), was a brother of Jesus, according to the New Testament.

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Jesus Seminar

The Jesus Seminar was a group of about 50 biblical criticism scholars and 100 laymen founded in 1985 by Robert Funk that originated under the auspices of the Westar Institute.

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Jesus the Magician

Jesus the Magician is a 1978 book by Morton Smith arguing that the historical Jesus was a magician who "sprang from a Galilean strain of Semitic paganism" (p. 68).

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John Gager

John Goodrich Gager Jr. (born 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American scholar of Christianity.

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Larry Hurtado

Larry Weir Hurtado (December 29, 1943 – November 25, 2019), was an American New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity, and Emeritus Professor of New Testament Language, Literature, and Theology at the University of Edinburgh (1996–2011).

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Liberal Christianity

Liberal Christianity, also known as liberal theology and historically as Christian Modernism (see Catholic modernism and Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy), is a movement that interprets Christian teaching by taking into consideration modern knowledge, science and ethics.

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Martin Hengel

Martin Hengel (14 December 1926 – 2 July 2009) was a German historian of religion, focusing on the "Second Temple Period" or "Hellenistic Period" of early Judaism and Christianity.

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Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection.

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Michael R. Licona

Michael R. "Mike" Licona (born 1961) is an American New Testament scholar, author, and Christian apologist.

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Morton Smith

Morton Smith (May 28, 1915 – July 11, 1991)Neusner, Jacob, Christianity, Judaism, and other Greco-Roman Cults.

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N. T. Wright

Nicholas Thomas Wright (born 1 December 1948), known as N. T.

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Origen

Origen of Alexandria (185 – 253), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria.

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Paula Fredriksen

Paula Fredriksen (born January 6, 1951, Kingston, Rhode Island) is an American historian and scholar of early Christianity.

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Religious experience

A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework.

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Resurrection of Jesus

The resurrection of Jesus (anástasis toú Iēsoú) is the Christian belief that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion, starting – or restoring – his exalted life as Christ and Lord.

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Second Coming

The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago).

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Simon bar Kokhba

Simon bar Kokhba or Simon bar Koseba, commonly referred to simply as Bar Kokhba, was a Jewish military leader in Judea.

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Stolen body hypothesis

The stolen body hypothesis posits that the body of Jesus Christ was stolen from his burial place. Vision theory of Jesus' appearances and stolen body hypothesis are historicity and origin of the Resurrection of Jesus.

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Swoon hypothesis

The swoon hypothesis is any of a number of ideas that aim to explain the resurrection of Jesus, proposing that Jesus did not die on the cross, but merely fell unconscious ("swooned"), and was later revived in the tomb. Vision theory of Jesus' appearances and swoon hypothesis are historicity and origin of the Resurrection of Jesus.

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Vision (spirituality)

A vision is something seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy, especially a supernatural appearance that usually conveys a revelation.

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William Lane Craig

William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author, and Wesleyan theologian who upholds the view of Molinism and neo-Apollinarianism.

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Also known as Vision hypothesis.

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Historicity and origin of the Resurrection of Jesus

Post-resurrection appearances of Jesus

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