Under new management

Under new management: Easter and Beyond

If I say that there is a whole book to be written on the subject of this chapter, writer and readers may be permitted to share a wry smile. I have already published extensively on Easter and its meaning, and for much of this chapter I shall simply summarize what I have argued at length there.1 But for the purposes of this book we need to draw out one strand in particular. At its simplest, the meaning of Easter and what quickly followed was the meaning that resulted from the events about this Jesus, the Jesus we have been studying so far. The difference between this Jesus and the various ‘Jesuses’ of popular imagination – inside the church as well as outside – will emerge as we proceed...