Resurrecting opinions
I didn’t think that I was going to have anything else worth saying this week. I was right, but Bishop Wright makes a good case for the resurrection in response to an article by Adam Rutherford in this week’s Guardian. Adam appears to be taking part in an Alpha course and he discusses his views in an article.
Of course, as everyone knows, people don’t come back from the dead (vampires and zombies notwithstanding). It doesn’t happen. Why is it so important to the teachings of Christ that his brutally murdered corpse did just that? Not for the first time, I don’t get it. [Read the full article here]
Bishop Wright writes in response…
Just as Christian faith is far more than a moral philosophy or spiritual pathway (though it includes both as it were en passant), so it is more than a “how to get saved” teaching backed up by a dodgy “miracle”. Christian faith declares that, in and through Jesus, the creator of the world launched his plan to rescue the world from the decaying and corrupting force of evil itself. This was (if it was anything at all) an event which brought about a new state of affairs, albeit often in a hidden and paradoxical way (as Jesus kept on saying): the “kingdom of God”, that is, the sovereign, rescuing rule of the creator, breaking in to creation. If this stuff didn’t happen then Christianity is based on a mistake. You can’t rescue it by turning it into a philosophy. [Read Bishop Wright's response here]
