Some Theses on the Church in North America Today (12)
12. Resurrection. Everything Christian comes down to this. Everything. Minus the bodily resurrection Christianity is either a moralistic religion or a gnostic-trending philosophy or spirituality. And before we can talk about meaning we have to talk about reality. Theologian Karl Barth once admonished his friend and student Thomas F. Torrance, “ Wohlverstanden , leibliche Auferstehung” (“Mark well, bodily resurrection”). A. John Updike gives a writer’s take in his well-known poem “Seven Stanzas at Easter” : “Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as...