Abstract:
After Paul’s departure from the city of Corinth, where he had remained for around a year and a half and founded a Christian congregation, some problems began to arise concerning resurrection. The issue came to the ears of the apostle through information of members of the Corinthian congregation itself. Upon finding out about the existing problems Paul presents his position about the subject through a letter to the local church. In the case of the problem in focus, the issue at stake was the fact that there were some brothers who affirmed that there was no resurrection of the dead. And from what can be understood, the issue was not just this one, because they also questioned how this resurrection would be if it in fact happened. What one perceives is that, apparently, they believed that Christ had resurrected but they did not believe that the dead would also resurrect much less with a body. With regard to the Pauline apologetics of resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15, what one understands is that, in spite of the fact that some writers defend that the resurrection will not be corporeal, renowned theologians such as Rudolf Bultmann and George E. Ladd and so many other scholars do not corroborate such thinking. The predominant and desired idea of the Pauline biblical text in 1 Corinthians 15 is that the resurrection of Christ, as well as of all human beings, will take place in the body, for there is no resurrection apart from it.
