Teaching the Resurrection

A friendly guide to the Resurrection of Jesus Francis Moloney

Christians take it for granted that Jesus rose from the dead. Without this belief, there would be no such thing as Christianity as we know it. How was this belief born? Once it was alive and central to the lives of the earliest Christians, how did they pass on their belief to following generations? This Friendly Guide traces the earliest confessions of faith in the Risen Jesus, from the first moments of the life of the Church, to the stories from Paul, Mark, Matthew, Luke and John. These inspired writings convey not only what happened, but also what it meant to the earliest Christians, and what it continues to mean today.

Francis J. Moloney, SDB is a Senior Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. A Member of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he has held major academic positions in several Universities, most recently as Professor of New Testament and Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of numerous scholarly books on the New Testament, and has a special interest in the figure of Jesus of Nazareth and the Gospels. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Catholic Theological College, Melbourne, and a Senior Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University.