When Jesus rose from the dead on Easter morning he rose as the beginning of the new world that Israel's God had always intended to make. That is the first and perhaps the most important thing to know about the meaning of Easter. Of course, I have said "when," not "if." I have argued in detail elsewhere that the only possible explanation for the rise of Christianity, and for it taking the shape it did, was that Jesus of Nazareth,…
N. T. WrightNovember 1, 2011