Open Source Edition
arrow_rightPart One: The Profession of Faith
arrow_rightSection Two: The Creeds
arrow_rightChapter Two: I Believe In Jesus Christ, The Only Son of God
arrow_rightArticle 5. "He Descended Into Hell. On The Third Day He Rose Again"

Paragraph 2. On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead

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“We bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this day he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus.”1 The Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived as the central truth by the first Christian community; handed on as fundamental by Tradition; established by the documents of the New Testament; and preached as an essential part of the Paschal mystery along with the cross:

Christ is risen from the dead!
Dying, he conquered death;
To the dead, he has given life.2

Subsections
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I. The Historical and Transcendent Event
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II. The Resurrection—A Work of the Holy Trinity
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III. The Meaning and Saving Significance of the Resurrection
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In Brief
Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:32-33.

  2. Byzantine Liturgy, Troparion of Easter.