Spurgeon's Cigar

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? Acts 26:8 Thomas Kuhn famously used the terminology “paradigm shift” in his influential 1962 work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . The Kuhnian “paradigm shift” described a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science. Subsequently, the descriptive terminology which Kuhn so aptly applied to the scientific endeavor has been seized upon by many (in varied fields) to describe the change in thinking and/or outcomes when a new paradigm is adopted ( i.e., when the paradigm “shifts”). The facticity of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead requires an epistemic shift ( i.e., a “paradigm shift” in thinking) from His followers. For Christ’s followers, since His resurrection, death can no longer be considered “final.” Death , (loss of being) the existentialist’s “ultimate concern,” evaporates under the blistering light of the resurrection offered by the Son of God. Resurrection e