By Paula Gooder
Even though Easter is the main major occasion within the Christian yr, we infrequently take time to discover what it skill intimately. rather a lot cognizance is given to Lent, but the theology of resurrection is principal not just to what we think approximately God and Jesus yet to our realizing of ourselves. Following the development of her creation e-book, The that means Is within the ready, Paula Gooder leads us on a biblical exploration of the resurrection bills in all the Gospels and in Paul's writings, in addition to the account of the Ascension and coming of the Spirit at Pentecost in Acts. prepared for day-by-day interpreting during the seven weeks of Eastertide, This Risen life opens with a longer mirrored image on old and modern understandings of resurrection. next chapters lead us on an exhilarating trip of discovery throughout the New testomony narratives in a quest to find what resurrection tells us approximately existence after demise, the tip instances, and what it really capability to be a Christian.
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Tombs are split open ready for a resurrection of the holy ones to take place, when Jesus himself rises from the dead. This is { 29 } this r i sen exi s tence a detail that reinforces as clearly as it can that Jesus’ death is about to change the world significantly, the end times are about to begin – though not completely: for that we must wait until the end of all times. Jesus’ death marked the brink between the old and the new; the world now waited poised for the resurrection to take place and for glimmers of the end times to be found in the world.
It is Matthew’s Gospel that describes rocks splitting at Jesus’ death, which allowed many of the ‘holy ones’ to rise from the dead and roam around Jerusalem. It also describes an earthquake at the resurrection, the guards falling over in a trance, and a commission that sent the disciples to proclaim the gospel to the whole world. Matthew’s account of Jesus’ death and resurrection would not be out of place in a modern science fiction film. Where John’s Gospel tells us about the resurrection from the perspective of the personal relationships between Jesus and Mary, Thomas and Peter, Matthew recounts a broader, wider picture, which tells of the way in which the resurrection made a difference to the world as a whole – even to the point of causing an earthquake.
S. Thomas puts it in his poem ‘Suddenly’ (quoted at the start of the Introduction, pp. 1–2): ‘not with the eye only, but with the whole of my being’. We begin, in Luke, with the fact of the resur rection – the tomb is empty, the grave clothes abandoned and it is announced that Jesus is alive. This fact is re ported by the women, who are dismissed by the other disciples, and then Peter. The rest of the stories are about people being transformed by the reality of this fact when they experience Jesus for themselves: the two on the road to Emmaus become animated and full of energy, and the disciples who eat with him worship him.