Indeed, in the New Testament, the idea of resurrection is sometimes used metaphorically to talk about a new moral life, a life where everything is going to be different. Wright: I’m well aware that many people - including some in churches - have treated the Resurrection and Easter as a general way of talking about the rebirth of hope or a spiritual metaphor. Why does the idea that this was an actual event matter to you? Tish Harrison Warren: Your book presents the Resurrection of Jesus as an actual, physical, historical event, not simply a metaphor or spiritual experience. This interview has been edited and condensed. I asked Wright to speak with me about his research and this baffling, world-altering claim of resurrection. One of his books, “ The Resurrection of the Son of God,” is an exhaustive dive into the scholarship and debates around the Resurrection. He is also a Christian and a former bishop of Durham in the Church of England. He has written over 80 books focused on Jesus and his first followers. He serves as senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and is emeritus professor of New Testament at the University of St. Perhaps no one on earth has studied that event and the subsequent responses to it more than N.T. Happy Easter! Easter marks the high point of the Christian liturgical calendar, when billions of Christians around the world celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, the central hope of the Christian faith.
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