This Risen Existence: The Spirit of Easter

by Paula Gooder

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2015

Overview

Although Easter is the most significant event in the Christian year, we rarely take time to explore what it means in detail. So much attention is given to Lent, yet the theology of resurrection is central not only to what we believe about God and Jesus but to our understanding of ourselves. Following the pattern of her Advent book, The Meaning Is in the Waiting, Paula Gooder leads us on a biblical exploration of the resurrection accounts in each of the Gospels and in Paul’s writings, as well as the account of the Ascension and coming of the Spirit at Pentecost in Acts.

Arranged for daily reading through the seven weeks of Eastertide, This Risen Existence opens with an extended reflection on ancient and contemporary understandings of resurrection. Subsequent chapters lead us on an exciting journey of discovery through the New Testament narratives in a quest to discover what resurrection tells us about life after death, the end times, and what it actually means to be a Christian.

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Key Features

• Journey through the biblical stories and ideas about resurrection
• Explore what the resurrection meant to a first-century Jewish audience
• Learn how the resurrection can transform your day-to-day life now

Contents

• Introduction: Resurrection: A Reflection
• One: Loose Ends: The Resurrection and Mark’s Gospel
• Two: Dramatic Events: The Resurrection and Matthew’s Gospel
• Three: On the Way: The Resurrection and Luke’s Gospel
• Four: Lifted up: The Resurrection and John’s Gospel
• Five: Life and Death: The Resurrection and the Epistles
• Six: At the Right Hand of God: The Ascension
• Seven: Spirit-filled Lives: Pentecost
• Epilogue

Top Highlights

“The resurrection offers us transformation in Christ, the ascension gives us the motivation to act and Pentecost the ability to do it.” (Page 15)

“Jesus’ resurrection points us to a new way of looking at the world, a new way of being that changes who we are and how we live in the world.” (Page 2)

“Living resurrection lives, however, requires us to go a step further. We are called to imitate Jesus but we are called even more to be transformed by him, to find our old self transformed into a new Christ-like self.” (Page 14)

“Just as spring flowers intimate that winter is passing and summer is round the corner, so also Jesus’ resurrection points us to the fact that the old order is passing and new creation is just about to happen.” (Page 3)

“The point about observance of the law is not the salvation of an individual but of the nation as a whole. If the nation as a whole keeps the law, the covenant will be intact and God will save them from their enemies. The logic of the covenant is predicated almost entirely on corporate identity. If the whole nation is faithful, then the whole nation will be saved.” (Page 11)

Product Details

• Title: This Risen Existence: The Spirit of Easter
• Author: Paula Gooder
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Pages: 130
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Easter; Resurrection › Biblical teaching; Jesus Christ › Ascension
• ISBNs: 9781451498066, 9781451498097, 1451498063, 1451498098
• Resource ID: LLS:RSNXSTNCSPRTSTR
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:47:38Z

About Paula Gooder

Paula Gooder, a member of SPCK’s governing body, was a lecturer in biblical studies at Ripon College Cuddesdon and then at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Studies before becoming a freelance writer and lecturer. She is a visiting lecturer at King’s College London, an honorary lecturer at the University of Birmingham, a senior research scholar at the Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, and the Canon Theologian of Birmingham Cathedral.