Dec 04 2008
Resurrection Language
Though it doesn’t fit the liturgical season of Advent, this is a good quote nevertheless — something to be savored. It’s from Ronald Knox’s Caliban in Grub Street:
The idea that Jesus was a great Moral Teacher, and that men afterwards came to think he had risen from the dead is simply unhistorical; you are putting the cart before the horse. The message which electrified the world of the first century was not “Love your enemies,” but “He is risen.”
