Frederick Buechner on the Living Christ “The earliest reference to the Resurrection was St. Paul’s, and he makes no mention of an empty tomb at all. But the fact of the matter is that in a way it hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever since. “For Paul the Resurrection was no metaphor, it was the power of God. And when he spoke of Jesus as raised from the dead, he meant Jesus alive and at large in the world not as some shimmering ideal of human goodness or the achieving power of hopeful thought but as the very power of life itself. If the life that was Jesus died on the cross; if the love that was in him came to an end when his heart stopped beating; if the truth that he spoke was no more if no less timeless than the great truths of any time; if all he had in him to give to the world was a little glimmer of light to make bearable the inevitable approach of endless night – then all was despair.” - Listening to Your Life, pp. 100, 102
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