Monk looking into the sunlight in the abbey church of Vézelay, France, 2015
Originally, the word resurrection was used in Christian contexts to refer to the rising of Christ from the dead or to the festival celebrating this rising (now known as Easter). The word eventually began to be used more generally in the senses of "resurgence" or "revival." Its Latin root, surgere, means "to rise." With the advent of written records, the earliest known recurrent theme of resurrection was in Egyptian and Canaanite religions, which had cults of dying-and-rising gods such as Osiris and Baal. Ancient Greek religion generally emphasised immortality, but in the mythos, a number of individuals were made physically immortal as they were resurrected from the dead. The death and resurrection of Jesus are a central focus of Christianity. While most Christians believe Jesus's resurrection from the dead and ascension to Heaven was in a material body, some think it was only spiritual.
It is often argued that the literal atoms after death are the same as before death. The question is: are they? We know they are not doing the same things or in quite the same configuration. That is an important difference. Life is not about substance, but about processes: activity. Life is about what the substance does. It is not something you are, it is something you do. In much the same way every single living human being is capable of being and most importantly, doing; we can all do good. If there is one thing, I have experienced meeting different people - black, white, Moslem, Christian, Jewish, Atheist etc - we can all do good and we can share ‘good’.
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