resurrection

     

Miraculous resurrection of one sort or another has been a recurrent theme or central octrine of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious accounts represent the resurrection of individuals, as well as a general resurrection of humanity on Judgment Day. Christianity also uses the term to refer to God's resurrection of Jesus. Accounts of resurrection also occur in other religious traditions. With the advent of written records, the earliest known recurrent theme of resurrection was in the ancient Egyptian religion and it was especially focused upon an individual in the cults of Neith, Isis, and Osiris.

Trivia about resurrection

  • In a Maria Van Oosterwijck still life, a butterfly represents this, like that of Jesus on the third day
  • Hope sometimes implies doubt, but not in the burial service that speaks of "sure and certain hope of" this event

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