Endsjo, Dag Oistein - Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity

Dag Oistein Endsjo argues that the roots and success of early Christianity owes as much to paganism
as to Judaism. His focus is the Greeks attraction to Christian concepts of immortality through
ressurection. In this sense the book is a companion to works on evolution of Christian theology and
mysticism.

Bynum, Caroline Walker - Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336

Bynum surveys attitudes about resurrection that the Western church encouraged from the third through
fourteenth centuries and how those attitudes were expressed by artists and writers. She shows that
Christians through the Middle Ages "clung to a very literal notion of resurrection despite repeated
attempts by theologians and philosophers to spiritualize the idea." Such ideas were firmly rejected
and the "soul itself was depicted as embodied."

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