I wrote this book because resurrection is central to Christian faith and yet often made surprisingly small. We reduce it to an annual celebration, a promise that we will go somewhere after death, or a metaphor for getting back up after disappointment. Those meanings may touch something real, but they do not carry the claim the earliest witnesses made. They said God raised the crucified Jesus bodily from the dead.
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Reading Jesus Without Shortcuts · Volume 4 of 5 · Catalog 43193
Resurrection
What Kind of World Is God Making?
Will Bourne reads the empty tomb, resurrection encounters, wounds, meals, and 1 Corinthians 15 without reducing them to metaphor or overstating historical proof.
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Will Bourne reads the empty tomb, resurrection encounters, wounds, meals, and 1 Corinthians 15 without reducing them to metaphor or overstating historical proof. Resurrection shows how the risen Jesus redefines embodied hope, grief, disability, creation, public responsibility, resistance, accountability, and faithful life in a world where death is no longer ultimate.
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