| This thesis mainly talks about the resurrection, which is the key concept in Christianity. What's the influence of it to the individual life, especially the Christians? When they confront the disaster and misery ,how do they respond? What their beliefs have brought to them on the earth? By the analysis of the Gospel of Mark, we try to find out how the author express the concept of resurrection, and what the influence to the first reader was, who the community of Mark was. The way of analysis is Reader-Response Criticism that means to understand the text of Mark from the aspect of readers. We should point out that the readers here are the first readers, who are the object of Mark.We describe the concept and influence of the resurrection in Christianity as following: In Chapter One we generally talk about the concept of resurrection and its importance. It refers to the resurrection in Old Testament and in New Testament, and then we share something about the significance and controversy of the resurrection. In chapter Two we analyze the text of Mark to explain why we pick up Mark as the writing material, the reasons are as following: first, Mark is the first Gospel in New Testament; Second, something about the background of Mark, such as its time, place and the objects; Third, the ending of Mark which is losing the story of Jesus' s appearance. In Chapter Three, we analyze the resurrection in Mark in detail. There are three aspects in this regard: First, we write something about the resurrection of Jesus from His suffering to the empty tomb, which we illustrate that the resurrection is bound to the suffering; Second, we illuminate that Jesus brought in the hope of resurrection through his work, which can be seen by the stories of healing,driving out the Demoniac and feeding and so on; Third, we analyze the discourse of Jesus on the general resurrection and the topics of the last days. In Chapter Four, we clarify the relationships among the Cross,resurrection and hope, standing out the theological meaning of resurrection and its great influence on the individual life.Starting from the text of Mark, this thesis has set forth the concept of resurrection and its influence on individual life. In view of the Christian theology, resurrection is connected with the salvation and the cross. The saving event of the cross and resurrection are bound together in indissoluble unity, that means the death of Jesus is in harmony with His resurrection. Apparently, the word of cross is dependent on the message of the resurrection, without resurrection, the death of Jesus remains shrouded in total darkness and cannot have any soterriological content, then not only is the giving up of the cross unthinkable, but even to speak of a co-ordination of cross and resurrection in hardly proper. Therefore, the resurrection of Jesus made the cross as the content of faith and theology, God express the especial importance of salvation in the resurrection. The death of Jesus means that God judged the evil of human, as a punishment, the cross became a curse. Due to the obedience of Jesus who is the Only Son of God, He saved the sinners. In addition, we know the death of Jesus have come over the power of Satan through His resurrection. By the resurrection, the relationship between God and human have been restored, for the resurrection of Christ has brought in the new footing for the existence of human, the new relationship exceeded the bondage of sin and death, which enables men able to be sons of God. Hence ,the death on the cross reconciled human with God, finally, achieving the plan of the salvation.Moreover, from the text of Mark, we know that in any story of healing, driving out demons or feeding, when the individual happened to meet with Jesus, his existence became to change: sometimes they recovered from the edge of death to the new existence full of strength; sometimes they recovered from a life of being paralyzed, sick or hurt and become healthy, filled with joy and peace, a brand new status of living; or...
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