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This Risen Existence

The Spirit of Easter

  • Paperback
  • 130 pages
  • Publisher: Canterbury Press
  • 12.6 x 19.8 x 1 cm

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An thoughtful Easter book that can be read over Lent

Paula Gooder focuses on the theology of resurrection

Discover new ways that Christ's resurrection speaks to believers today

A deep and fulfilling look into the meaning of Easter of Christ's resurrection, Paula Gooder shows how resurrection is key to faith and understanding the Bible.
Anna Hockley

Anna Hockley

Eden Christian Books Specialist

Although Easter is the most significant event in the Christian year, we rarely take time to explore what it means in detail. So much attention is given to Lent, yet the theology of resurrection is central not only to what we believe about God and Jesus, but to our understanding of ourselves.

Following the pattern of her Advent book, The Meaning is in the Waiting, Paula Gooder leads us on a biblical exploration of the resurrection accounts in each of the Gospels and in Paul's writings, as well as the account of the Ascension and coming of the Spirit at Pentecost in Acts.

Arranged for daily reading through the seven weeks of Eastertide, This Risen Existence opens with an extended reflection on ancient and contemporary understandings of resurrection. Subsequent chapters lead us on an exciting journey of discovery through the New Testament narratives in a quest to discover what resurrection tells us about life after death, the end times and what it actually means to be a Christian.

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  • Author

    Paula Gooder

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Canterbury Press

  • Published

    November 2009

  • Weight

    10g

  • Page Count

    130

  • Dimensions

    12.6 x 19.8 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781853119965

  • ISBN-10

    1853119962

  • Eden Code

    2393694

Paula Gooder is a freelance writer and lecturer in Biblical studies, a Reader in the Church of England and an honorary Canon Theologian at Birmingham and Guildford Cathedrals.

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    This is the Easter book that Paula Gooder admits she would have liked to have read, one that unpacks what the ‘risen life’ really means for us in this present moment. That fact must, therefore, say something about the Churches historic ambivalence in this area of faith, and so makes the book hugely important. She has chosen 42 passages from the New Testament for her discussion – so if it is read between Easter and Pentecost that would offer six a week for seven weeks (she allows one day off a week). This commitment is prefaced by a concise resum&éacute; of our tangled ideas of what Resurrection signifies as its part in the end times, its part in life after death, and its part in the transformation of our present lives. Paula Gooder has an easy style and is not afraid to reveal herself in her writing, yet this is never self-serving, it is always with a clear purpose, to illustrate or clarify a point. Neither does she want to have the last word, to dogmatise. She takes her reader firstly through the gospels, then the epistles, always informative but scattering jewels along the path, revealing the truth that Jesus Christ has transformed the world, and that we can experience God’s new age if only we look. Read this book, and your Easter, and the weeks after it, will never be the same again.