This Risen Existence by Paula Gooder
Although Easter is the most significant event in the Christian year, we rarely take time to explore what it means in detail. So much attention is given to Lent, yet the theology of resurrection is central not only to what we believe about God and Jesus, but to our understanding of ourselves. Following the pattern of her Advent book, "The Meaning is in the Waiting", Paula Gooder leads us on a biblical exploration of the resurrection accounts in each of the Gospels and in Paul's writings, as well as the account of the Ascension and coming of the Spirit at Pentecost in Acts. Arranged for daily reading through the seven weeks of Eastertide, "This Risen Existence" opens with an extended reflection on ancient and contemporary understandings of resurrection. Subsequent chapters lead us on an exciting journey of discovery through the New Testament narratives in a quest to discover what resurrection tells us about life after death, the end times and what it actually means to be a Christian.
'This is the Easter book that Paula Gooder admits she would have liked to have read, one that unpacks what the 'risen life' really means for us in this present momentThat fact must, therefore, say something about the Churches historic ambivalence in this area of faith, and so makes the book hugely important. Read this book, and your Easter, and the weeks after it, will never be the same again.' -- The Good Bookstall
'[It] might just be the thing to help us carry on the discipline of meditation and reflection followed in Lent ... The introduction is well worth reading too so don't be tempted to skip it.' -- Clem Jackson
'[It] might just be the thing to help us carry on the discipline of meditation and reflection followed in Lent ... The introduction is well worth reading too so don't be tempted to skip it.' -- Clem Jackson
DR PAULA GOODER is an honorary lecturer at the University of Birmingham, Canon Theologian at Birmingham Cathedral, a Reader in the Church of England and a member of General Synod
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| ISBN 13 | 9781853119965 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853119962 |
| Title | This Risen Existence |
| Author | Paula Gooder |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canterbury Press Norwich |
| Year published | 2009-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 130 |
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