The Impact of the Resurrection: Past, Present, and Future (1 Corinthians 15:50-58)

“The scale of the reversal cannot be exaggerated: when Jesus stands before Pilate for the last time, beaten, derided, robed in purple and crowned with thorns, he must seem from the vantage of all the noble wisdom of the empire and the age... merely absurd. ... But in the light of the resurrection, from the perspective of Christianity’s inverted order of vision, the mockery now redounds upon all kings and emperors, whose finery and symbols of status are revealed to be nothing more than rags and brambles beside the majesty of God’s Son, beside this servile shape in which God displays his infinite power to be where he will be; all the rulers of the earth cannot begin to surpass in grandeur this beauty of the God who ventures forth to make even the dust his glory.”—David Bentley Hart The Impact of the Resurrection: Past, Present, and Future (1 Corinthians 15:50–58) Rev. Nathan Barczi 1 Corinthians 15:50-58