If Jesus is Risen, Where is His Body?

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1 Corinthians 15.1-11

One of the gospel-minimum components of the church’s resurrection proclamation poses a particular problem for believers who live after Copernicus. Modern people remain every bit as superstitious as our ancient forebears, yet the claim of Jesus’s bodily resurrection presents a difficulty for us that it did not for them. Specifically, to be a body is to be locatable. A minimum consideration to register about the body of Jason Micheli, for example, is that you can now find it, sitting comfortably with a cup of coffee, outside of Washington DC.

So then, where is the body of Jesus?

Prior to Copernicus, the church’s canon and creed provided a simple solution to this question. The Father raised the Son to sit at his right hand in heaven.

As though he drank too much Fizzy Lifting Drink, the ancient church presumed the Risen Jesus gets to heaven by moving through space to the boundary of the earthly space and the heavenly one.

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