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Is Christianity about going to heaven or bringing heaven to Earth?
Whatever else Christianity is, it is an assertion of historic fact. The New Testament invites us to examine the evidence. Its claim of a bodily resurrection was as strange and impossible — as Updike says, “monstrous” — when it was first made 2,000 years ago as it is now.It would be so much more acceptable if Easter were merely a ritual communicatin
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“The extreme greatness of Christianity,” wrote Simone Weil, “lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.”