Tom Laughlin has provided us with a thorough and helpful summation of the argument of his recent monograph on resurrection in the early church entitled, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism, over at the Ancient Jew Review. His book is an adaption of his doctoral dissertation at Duke University under J. Warren Smith. Tom seeks to move the traditional scholarly approach to resurrection in early Christianity from the focus on the relationship between resurrection and embodiment to the “why” and purpose of resurrection. If you are interested in resurrection in earliest Christianity, make sure and read his summary of his argument here. I look forward to making my way through this book and may review it after I get out from under the mountain of doctoral coursework this semester.
