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The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected Christ is the crucified Christ. It's not like, 'Oh, that was just a mistake, now it's over.' Jesus continues to suffer from our sins.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.

The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.