The Resurrection– Is there room for neutrality on the subject?
As for neutrality: yes, I think there is. I myself once professed to be agnostic on the subject of the bodily resurrection, though I no longer am. Many serious Christian thinkers refuse to comment on the bodily resurrection of Christ, believing it to be a mystery, and perhaps not one of primary importance for Christians. I used to feel this way, but I fear I am growing more doctrinally orthodox in my old age. There seem to me to be two main strands of Christianity: those which place the Cross and the Crucifixion at the centre of their theology, and those which place the resurrection and the empty tomb at the centre. Both are valid, and both are important aspects of Christianity: generally speaking, Catholics, Orthodox, and Anglicans TEND to fall into the first group, and Protestants and Evangelicals TEND to fall into the second. They imply different atonement theologies and perhaps different salvation theologies too. Falling to the first group myself, it always seemed to me that the cr
