Du corps mortel au corps de lumiere - fondements et signification de la resurrection
Michel hubaut
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Why, in our times, does Christian hope seem so unappealing? Clearly, this mass phenomenon is a huge challenge to Christians: the Resurrection is, today, for many of our peers, an empty concept. Even if most of those people who call themselves Catholics claim to believe in Christ's Resurrection, there are very few who believe in the resurrection of the dead. However, as Saint Paul says: ‘And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.' (1 Co 15, 17). Hence, Christianity today is attacked in its very foundations. ‘Christ is raised, we are the witnesses!' but what permits us to believe, really? We probably have to keep coming back to the formidable Good News which the Resurrection of Christ represents, in the perspective opened up by the Incarnation to the very cosmic dimensions of this enigma. Christ did not become a ‘soul' but a body transfigured. If Christ indeed took on our human condition, so ennobling matter, it was not simply to return to the state of pure spirit. Through a meticulous analysis of the Old and New testament texts, Michel Hubaut casts new light on the foundations and the signification of the Resurrection. We are all called upon, personally and collectively, to be transfigured to become bodies of light, living participants in the plenitude of God.