Was Christ raised from the dead or did he rise from the dead?

[Suslar]

I am reading a book for a graduate level class in which the author states, “The Spirit that breathes life into creation is the source of the incarnate Jesus, calls and empowers his life and witness, raises him from the dead, and births the church of his followers into being.”

At first, I got tripped up on the word “source” – as in the Spirit being the source of Jesus – and know that is not possible given that the Father, Son and Spirit are One.

But what’s really got me now is the phrase “The Spirit . . .raises him from the dead . . . “
Was Christ raised from the dead or did he rise from the dead?
The Nicene Creed says, “he rose again . . . “ Did Christ rise by his own power or that of the Holy Spirit?

 

[TheDumbOx]

Act 2:24 RSV - But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

Rom 6:4 RSV - We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

The CCC says:

II. THE RESURRECTION - A WORK OF THE HOLY TRINITY

648 Christ’s Resurrection is an object of faith in that it is a transcendent intervention of God himself in creation and history. In it the three divine persons act together as one, and manifest their own proper characteristics. The Father’s power “raised up” Christ his Son and by doing so perfectly introduced his Son’s humanity, including his body, into the Trinity. Jesus is conclusively revealed as “Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his Resurrection from the dead”.514 St. Paul insists on the manifestation of God’s power515 through the working of the Spirit who gave life to Jesus’ dead humanity and called it to the glorious state of Lordship.

649 As for the Son, he effects his own Resurrection by virtue of his divine power. Jesus announces that the Son of man will have to suffer much, die, and then rise.516 Elsewhere he affirms explicitly: "I lay down my life, that I may take it again. . . I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again."517 "We believe that Jesus died and rose again."518

650 The Fathers contemplate the Resurrection from the perspective of the divine person of Christ who remained united to his soul and body, even when these were separated from each other by death: "By the unity of the divine nature, which remains present in each of the two components of man, these are reunited. For as death is produced by the separation of the human components, so Resurrection is achieved by the union of the two."519

514 ⇒ Rom I 3-4; cf. ⇒ Acts 2:24.
515 Cf. ⇒ Rom 6:4; ⇒ 2 Cor 13:4; ⇒ Phil 3:10; ⇒ Eph 1:19-22; ⇒ Heb 7:16.
516 Cf. ⇒ Mk 8:31; ⇒ 9:9-31; ⇒ 10:34.
517 ⇒ Jn 10:17-18.
518 ⇒ I Th 4:14.
519 St. Gregory of Nyssa, In Christi res. Orat. I: PG 46, 617B; cf. also DS 325; 359; 369.

 

[MikeDunphy]

"The Spirit that … births the church of his followers into being.”

I don’t have much confidence in the orthodoxy of an author who hints at a mother God. Fathers don’t give birth.

 

[hn160]

The Creeds say that Christ rose from the dead, so it is true.

 

[po18guy]

From the Nicene creed: “For us men and our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary and became man.”
His flesh was brought into existence by the power of the Holy Spirit. His divine nature always existed.

 

[GEddie]

HE Himself said that HE had power to lay down His life and to take it up again.

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