I haven't got to the bottom of this topic by a long shot. I know that one of the legacies of the enlightenment of German 20th Century theology was a certain shiftiness when it came to the historical nature of the resurrection as a basis of belief (e.g. Bultmann).
Here's a quote I came across today. It's from Kant, "What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking", read the starred footnote here.
What would Kant make of 1 Corinthians 15?
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The posts on Kerygma and Myth are relevant although not yet providing conclusions.
A few words on Gotthold Lessing (1729-1781).
German playwright. Publisher of Reimarus' fragments which argued that Jesus had believed the end of the world was imminent as had his disciples after his death. Only when his disciples changed the message was Christianity born.
Lessing felt that it was impossible to base a universal religion on ancient history. For him, history was always contingent. It could always have been different - what if Pilate had refused to crucify Christ? "There is a broad, ugly ditch of history which I cannot jump across." How can eternal truths be derived from contingent history?
Consequently the religions should act as though they are true, tolerating each other, until the time when people realise that morality is derived from reason and rationality.
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