What lies behind the traditional Easter stories of the Christian Church? That question ouqht to be boiled down into two further questions. What is (probably) .the history behind the narratives in the New Testament? And what is the experience behind the New Testament's mesoage that
Jesus is 'alive' and is 'Lord'? When we have answered those questions, we can proceed to ask: What should the event, and its interpretation in the New Testament, mean for our thinking about our own nature and future ?
All these questions have been asked and answered in recent discussions by theologians. The trouble is that the discussion has remained too technical for the ordinary reader. Now this book presents the whole discussion, not dodging any of the problems, in such a way that the non-specialist is helped by scholarly but plain talking. The story of the resurrection of Jesus, so often nowadays dismissed as a mere myth, is in this book made the foundation of a convincing presentation of Christianity. Here, after all the initial discussion, the answers emerge.