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The best description of the nature of the Resurrection may come from C.S. Lewis: “The best picture is not what we expected…It is not the picture of an escape from any and every kind of Nature into some unconditioned and utterly transcendent life. It is the picture of a new nature in general, being brought into existence…That is the picture – not of unmaking but of remaking.
The old field of space, time, matter and the senses is to be weeded, dug and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field; God is not…
A new nature is being not merely made but made of an old one. We live amid all the anomalies, inconveniences, hopes and excitements of a house that is being rebuilt. Something is being pulled down and something is going up in its place. It is at this point that awe and trembling fall upon us as we read the records.
If the story is false, it is at least a much stranger story than we expected, something for which philosophical “religion,” psychical research and popular superstition have all alike failed to prepare us. If the story is true, then a whole new mode of being has arisen in the universe.”
This and other readings from “The Handbook of Christian Apologetics” by Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelliare here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2009/08/25/reading-selections-on-the-resurrection-from-the-handbook-of-christian-apologetics-%e2%80%93-peter-kreeft-and-ronald-k-tacelli/
Do you have any thoughts on the Resurrection, what it is, what it is like? Something you have read or would like to share?
The old field of space, time, matter and the senses is to be weeded, dug and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field; God is not…
A new nature is being not merely made but made of an old one. We live amid all the anomalies, inconveniences, hopes and excitements of a house that is being rebuilt. Something is being pulled down and something is going up in its place. It is at this point that awe and trembling fall upon us as we read the records.
If the story is false, it is at least a much stranger story than we expected, something for which philosophical “religion,” psychical research and popular superstition have all alike failed to prepare us. If the story is true, then a whole new mode of being has arisen in the universe.”
This and other readings from “The Handbook of Christian Apologetics” by Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelliare here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2009/08/25/reading-selections-on-the-resurrection-from-the-handbook-of-christian-apologetics-%e2%80%93-peter-kreeft-and-ronald-k-tacelli/
Do you have any thoughts on the Resurrection, what it is, what it is like? Something you have read or would like to share?