The coming of the Son of God into our lost and alienated being constitutes Immanuel, God with us, but if God is with us in Christ then in him we are with God. We with God is thus the obverse of God with us. The exaltation of man is the obverse of the humiliation of the Son of God. It is in this light that we must think of the mutual involution of mortality and immortality, death and life, the crucifixion and the resurrection of Christ. Seen in this way the resurrection is not to be understood merely as something that follows upon the crucifixion but as the other side of it – that is why we
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