
“It is not about ‘life after death’ as such. Rather, it’s a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: ‘life after ‘life after death.'”
N. T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
N. T. Wright is, arguably, the foremost New Testament scholar in the English-speaking world right now.