Resurrection, I now believe, was not a physical act. No formerly deceased body ever walked out of any tomb, leaving it empty to take up a previous life in the world. For Paul and for the other early Christians to whom Paul says Jesus “appeared,” resurrection was, rather, a moment of new revelation that occurred when survival-driven humanity could transcend that limit and give itself away in love to others, including even to those who wish and do us evil. This was the experience in which a new “seeing” of both God and life was born. Was this experience great enough to have been called
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