Precisely because the resurrection has happened as an event within our own world, its implications and effects are to be felt within our own world, here and now. This is one of the points at which it simply won’t do to say (as, according to various opinion polls, a lot of clergy and even some bishops are inclined to say) that believing in the bodily resurrection of Jesus is a take-it-or-leave-it option. Jesus’s bodily resurrection marks a watershed.
