Q: What does your understanding of Jesus\u2019 bodily resurrection mean for how we treat people along those lines of justice and justification?<\/strong><\/p>\nOne of the great things that I began to realize when I was working on Jesus\u2019 resurrection and on the New Testament\u2019s vision and the early fathers\u2019 vision of the whole creation renewed \u2014 think of Irenaeus and people like that, amazing picture of whole creation being transformed by the love and power of God as you find in Romans 8 for instance \u2014 is that you suddenly realize that when Paul is then being very specific, say in 1 Corinthians 6, about what we do with and behave with our bodies \u2014 that God is going to raise this body, so jolly well take care what you do with it \u2014 and you realize, this isn\u2019t just a kind of flag-waving bit of rhetoric. It\u2019s quite serious. He really means it. We\u2019re not mucking around with trash here. And in the same way with creation, this creation that we live in, that we pollute or grow plants in or whatever, is the world that God is going to renew.<\/p>\n
So for me, a rediscovery of the biblical vision of new creation validates in advance all the things that anticipate that work, and if anyone were to say, \u201cBut it hasn\u2019t happened yet,\u201d the answer is, \u201cWell, it has actually \u2014 with the resurrection of Jesus.\u201d This is why the bodily resurrection of Jesus is not just a nice theological option for people with a vaguely conservative bent or whatever. It\u2019s the most explosive thing there could be. It is the launching of new creation ahead of time, creating a platform on which we can work for new creation in the present until the day when God finally does it. And I still find that vision very, very \u2014 it\u2019s not only helpful, it reconciles the deep vision of different strands of Christians.<\/p>\n
In England, I see this particularly \u2014 the Gospels Christians and Epistles Christians, if you like. The Gospels, that \u201cJesus did all this neat stuff about feeding the hungry and going with the poor. We\u2019re going to do that.\u201d Fine. OK. Then all that stuff about salvation sort of gets lost off. Then the Epistles Christians say, \u201cNo, what matters is to be saved, and here\u2019s how, and don\u2019t worry about all the social work. Leave that to the politicians.\u201d And a lot of my work over the last many years has been to try to hold those two together and explain to them the larger biblical framework of thought within which both make sense but both need each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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