Valentinian Christianity by Geoffrey S. Smith

Author:Geoffrey S. Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520297463
Publisher: University of California Press

IX. TREATISE ON THE RESURRECTION

The Treatise on the Resurrection, also called the Epistle to Rheginos, is the title of the fourth text in Nag Hammadi codex I. The text purports to be a letter written to an otherwise unknown Christian named Rheginos, who may have asked the author for special teaching regarding the nature of the Savior’s resurrection. Of particular interest is the nature of the Savior’s resurrected self, possibly occasioned by confusion over Paul’s teaching in 1 Corinthians 15. Unfortunately, the author’s own understanding of the reality of the fleshly resurrection remains elusive on account of an elliptical question that can be taken plainly or rhetorically: “Why will you not receive flesh when you ascend into the eternity?” Whatever the author’s own view, the Treatise on the Resurrection contributes to our knowledge of the kinds of debates that occupied early Christians concerning the nature of the self after death. The Treatise on the Resurrection was likely composed in the late second century C.E. in Greek.

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