Why does the idea that this was an actual event matter to you? Tish Harrison Warren: Your book presents the Resurrection of Jesus as an actual, physical, historical event, not simply a metaphor or spiritual experience.
This interview has been edited and condensed. I asked Wright to speak with me about his research and this baffling, world-altering claim of resurrection. One of his books, “ The Resurrection of the Son of God,” is an exhaustive dive into the scholarship and debates around the Resurrection. He is also a Christian and a former bishop of Durham in the Church of England. He has written over 80 books focused on Jesus and his first followers. He serves as senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and is emeritus professor of New Testament at the University of St. Perhaps no one on earth has studied that event and the subsequent responses to it more than N.T. This entry was posted in Reviews on Novemby Vicki Ziegler.Happy Easter! Easter marks the high point of the Christian liturgical calendar, when billions of Christians around the world celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, the central hope of the Christian faith.
If you’d like to support this book as a possible Canada Reads finalist, you can vote for it here, as well as perusing some other great recommendations. Negotiating With the Dead is one of the Canadian non-fiction titles I’ve recommended for Canada Reads 2012: True Stories. Some might count that as a flaw of this work, in that the overall voice is somewhat inconsistent, but I think that’s part of its charm and makes the subject matter that much more approachable, digestible and memorable. At the same time, much of it has a conversational tone that undoubtedly stems from both its origin as a series of lectures, but also Atwood’s strong and singular voice. This book brims with examples from the classical to the contemporary of the multifaceted and sometimes conflicted roles, challenges and opportunities of the writer. It also drove home that the audience and the individual reader are critical figures in the symbiosis of the writer’s creative process. It was a sweet reminiscence about the person whom she considered to be her first reader – and who she later paid tribute to with an appearance in one of her novels – that brought on my moved and appreciative tears. It is breathtakingly erudite and eclectic, but is also interwoven with very personal and down-to-earth recollections and episodes from Atwood’s own journey as both a writer and a reader. “Negotiating With the Dead” is a reflection on the roles of writers and their readers, adapted and somewhat expanded from the Empson Lectures which Margaret Atwood delivered at Cambridge University in 2000. Margaret Atwood made me get teary-eyed on the subway while reading this book.
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