A while ago I wrote a series of posts about Jesus' miracles. Without wanting to go over old ground, the general drift was that the miracles are teaching incidents. They are not intended as displays of divine power, but as illustrations of the nature of the Kingdom of God coming among us. Did they happen? Not sure, I don't dismiss them but I hold their factuality relatively lightly. Anyway, I kind of hinted then that I would do a separate post on the Resurrection, but it's taken me a while to get around to it. It's a difficult subject and not one to be taken on lightly. However some of my recent reading, including William Lane Craig , Paul Barnett and Geza Vermes , has helped to crystallise my thinking about the question in a way I think is worth telling you about. I'll do it in two parts, otherwise it would be too long - this one looks at the evidence for the resurrection as an historical phenomenon, the next will look at what it meant for the early Ch
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson