Rising Light: The Promise of Resurrection of the Body

by Michael Hickey

Publisher:

Hamilton Books

, 2023

Rising Light begins with the Christian hope of a promised expectation of a bodily resurrection. It is rooted in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the Biblical foundation of the Old and New Testaments. It carries through to the Tradition of the Catholic/Christian church beginning with the Apostles and the church Fathers and then weaves through key Doctors of the church such as St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas. It includes the institutional grounding of the Christian faith found in the church creeds, The Catholic Catechism, and Papal encyclicals, letters and exhortations.as well as the theology of prominent modern theologians such as Karl Rahner, SJ and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ. This book will demonstrate how unlike the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ which are historical realities, the resurrection is something not only historical, but also transhistorical, in that it encompasses and affects all of history from its beginning to its end. The concluding chapters of Rising Light focus on how the risen Christ for us has now become greater than even Christianity itself as a world religion, as the risen Christ is now the Universal Christ. The book ends with how the theology of Karl Rahner (Theological Anthropology) can show us that theology of the resurrection is not only rooted in the supernatural and transcendent divine, but also in the very nature of the human person in something as universal to all mankind as our sense of humor.

Contents

Chapter 1: H.O.P.E.: Horizon of Promised Expectation

Chapter 2: The Foundation of Our Christian Faith

Chapter 3: The Early Christian Community and Resurrection History

Chapter 4: Is the Resurrection Strictly an Historical Event?

Chapter 5: The Empty Tomb Stories

Chapter 6: The Post-Resurrection Appearance Stories

Chapter 7: The Ascension

Chapter 8: The Assumption

Chapter 9: Resurrection of the Body: From the Old Testament to St Augustine

Chapter 10: Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas: And Resurrection of the Body

Chapter 11: Karl Rahner’s Theology: And Resurrection of the Body

Chapter 12: Signs in the Natural World: Dying and Rising

Chapter 13: Symbols in Mythology: Dying and Rising

Chapter 14: The Shroud of Turin

Chapter 15: The Catholic Catechism: Dying and Rising

Chapter 16: Selected Papal Encyclicals, Letters, and Apostolic Exhortations: Dying and Rising

Chapter 17: The Risen Christ is the Universal Christ

Chapter 18: Humor: A Signal of Transcendence, A Sign of Resurrection

Index

About the Author

Product Details

• Title: Rising Light: The Promise of Resurrection of the Body
• Author: Michael Hickey
• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780761874126, 9780761874119, 0761874119, 0761874127
• Resource ID: LLS:9780761874126
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-11-03T10:43:15Z

About Michael Hickey

Michael Hickey is a graduate of Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and a Master of Divinity Studies graduate of Weston Jesuit, now the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Following a career as a corporate executive for a Fortune 500 company, he became a Director of two 501 C-3 charitable non-profits; he was Executive Director of Food for the Poor Inc., Deerfield Beach, Fl., and Development Director for My Brother’s Table Soup Kitchen, Lynn, MA. As he approached retirement, he began his own marketing business, retiring as a successful entrepreneur in his late fifties to teach and write. He has had four books previously published; Get Wisdom, Get Goodness, Get Real, and Get to the End. Michael Hickey is married to Theresa, a published poet and the editor of this new book. In their 50+ years of marriage they have raised four happy and "well adjusted" children into adulthood and they currently have five grandchildren.