Christianity … the resurrection of Jesus from the dead was a real event in history, the very foundation of faith, and not a mythical idea arising out of the creative imagination of believers.14 Other scholars likewise concur with Braaten in this view. Reginald Fuller agrees that there was no time in which the resurrection was not the center of Christian preaching.15 Ramm asserts that the most important purpose served by form criticism has been to show that the miracles, and the resurrection in particular,