
The Easter revolution causes the tyrants of the world to tremble
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The New Testament has a grab-you-by-the-lapel quality, an urgency to communicate an event that has turned everything upside down: the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.
Word on Fire founder Bishop Robert Barron is bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester (Minnesota) and an acclaimed author, speaker, and theologian. He is one of the most followed Catholics in the world on social media, prompting Francis Cardinal George to describe him as "one of the Church’s best messengers." Follow him on Twitter: @BishopBarron
And that revolutionary happening is the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth from the dead.
When I was going through university and seminary, there was a tendency to downplay the resurrection, interpreting it as a myth, a legend, a symbol that the cause of Jesus goes on. One of the most influential Catholic theologians of that period speculated that the disciples, after the death of their Lord, felt forgiven and then expressed this fact in vivid stories about appearances and the empty tomb.