Easter is more difficult to communicate than Christmas. We find it rather simple to talk about the birth of a baby compared to the brutal murder of an innocent man. Incarnation is more accessible than exaltation. 'He's here' is easier to swallow than 'he'll be back soon.'
So maybe this will help...
The central New Testament belief is that death will be not simply redefined but defeated. God's intention is not to let death have its way with us. If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls leave behind their mortal bodies, then death still rules - since that is a description not of the defeat of death but simply of death itself, seen from one angle.
NT Wright, Surprised By Hope, 15.
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