The Centrality of the Resurrection       In Jaroslav Pelikan, Ph.D.’s book, Acts , part of the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series, he pulls together all the numerous references to the resurrection of Christ throughout the Biblical book of the “Acts of the Apostles," and makes several general observations, as follows.       Pelikan, who was a Yale historian of Christian doctrine, notes that Luke, the author of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, ties together his Gospel and the Acts “preeminently by the resonances of the Easter narrative.” Luke 24 ends with the women, and then Peter and John, at the empty tomb; with Jesus meeting up with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, followed by His appearance to the apostles, and ending with His ascension. Acts, then, begins with Jesus’ “presenting Himself alive” “by many proofs,” followed by a more detailed account of His ascension. Luke is writing both as a historia...