No.19 Referenced from ~ Part1 - Chapter 3 - Succession

Two Key Doctrines Lost Over the Long Centuries

It may have been in K. Barth's "Judgment of the Father" in his "Church Dogmatics" written in the mid-20th century that the resurrection interpretation that "the resurrection is God's approval of Jesus" was reaffirmed. However, this was quite recent in the more than 2,000 years of church history, and until then, this resurrection interpretation had been lost from the church.

Furthermore I believe that it was in this essay that we have discovered that this understanding of the resurrection, which Barth interpreted only as a theological one, was preserved in its original form by Luke as the kerygma of the early church.

Even if this were the case, this situation is not surprising when we remember that the 16th century man, M. Luther, restored the other greatest principle of Christian faith, justification by the cross. Even the doctrine of the cross, its true meaning, had been lost from the church for a long time.

Until they were rediscovered, the doctrines of the resurrection and the cross dominated the church in their degraded versions. In the doctrine of the resurrection, a repetition of the psychological joy of Easter due to the resurrection of Jesus, and in the doctrine of the cross, the idea of ​​salvation through monastic training replaced the original faith, and "Mappou no Yo", that is, a world lost true doctrine continued for many centuries.