Richard Gaffin Jr on Paul’s emphasis on the passivity of Jesus in his resurrection

Richard Gaffin Jr says:

God in his specific identity as the Father raises Jesus; correlatively, Jesus is passive in his resurrection. This viewpoint is maintained consistently by Paul, without exception, as far as I can see. Nowhere does he say that Christ was active in his resurrection, much less that he raised himself. Paul does not teach that Christ “rose” from the dead, but that he “was raised.”

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The theological significance of this stress plainly lies in what we have seen is the controlling unity there is between the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers. Christ’s passivity in his resurrection reflects his identification and solidarity with believers in being raised from the dead. For Paul, not in conflict with but other than the way it is often understood, the resurrection is not the especially evident display and powerful proof of Christ’s, divinity, but rather the vindication of the incarnate [my italics] Christ in his suffering and obedience unto death,, and, with that, the powerful transformation of him in his humanity.

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Some comment should be made her on the relationship of Paul’s invariable emphasis on the passivity of Jesus in his resurrection to Jesus’ own statements elsewhere suggesting or affirming that he actively rose from the dead [a footnote lists the examples of Jon 2:19 and 10:17-18] […] Paul looks at the resurrection in terms of the Adamic identity of Jesus and the genuine humanity he shares with believers, while Jesus in John’s Gospel affirms what is also true, because of the deity he shares with the Father in his unique identity and relationship as the Son.

(pp. 65-67, By Faith, Not by Sight: Paul and the Order of Salvation, Carlisle:Paternoster)