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The resurrection of Jesus, and our participation in it, is of course foundational for the \u201ccomic\u201d vision of Christianity. Barth, however, expresses this in a particularly sharp way, when he describes how the Christian looks back to death and the grave as a past event, and forward to resurrection. The resurrection, in short, shifts the location of death in history, the individual\u2019s life story, and literature. For ancients, death always remains ahead, and is always only what remains ahead \u2013 the unavoidable horizon of life and history. If there is life, it is behind. By his resurrection, however, Jesus has conquered death (though it still remains to be conquered), and we can in a real sense look back on it as a defeated foe. Only such a faith can produce the \u201cdeep comedy\u201d of Western Christian literature. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The resurrection of Jesus, and our participation in it, is of course foundational for the \u201ccomic\u201d vision of Christianity. Barth, however, expresses this in a particularly sharp way, when he describes how the Christian looks back to death and the grave as a past event, and forward to resurrection. The resurrection, in short, shifts the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology-christology"],"yoast_head":"\n