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The Resurrection As God’s Vanishing Act

The Resurrection As God’s Vanishing Act

Emmaus by Janet Brooks-Gerloff, 1992 Benedictine Kornelimünster, Aachen

Although the resurrection is the story of the unexpected hope breaking forth in the midst of tragedy, loss, and defeat, resurrection is also always the cypher for confusion and enigma. Is not the resurrection both presence and absence, hope and deferment. Does it not bring emptiness in the midst of fulfillment?

No narrative illustrates this better than that of the two men who are on their way to Emmaus.

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Demythologization or Remythologization?

Demythologization or Remythologization?

A little shout-out here to Rudolf Bultmann on the occasion of Easter. This theologian deserves much more attention. The bad rap he gets for his project of demythologization (if he is mentioned at all in conservative circles) is entirely unjustified. I’ve just been reading his “New Testament & Mythology and Other Basic Writings” and can only say that, while I don’t subscribe to Bultmann’s demythologization, I’m deeply impressed.