For all its importance, Easter in the New Testament is treated more as a challenge to Christ's followers than the challenge to nature and the intellect that it is. The descriptions vary considerably; in one, the confused followers find an empty tomb with some linen fallen underfoot, some strangely, neatly folded. But in most instances, the empty tomb is mediated by some extraordinary event or individual, an earthquake or an angel. Then the story seems to slow down. The gravity of the situation is too much for time.
There is no cataclysmic epiphany. The realization is gradual--in typical biblical cosmic humor, the first witnesses, women, are not even legal witnesses. Christ's astonishing miracle is made clear and defined slowly to various individuals, one at a time. This is not a movement; this is elemental and personal.
As befits a collision of the physical and the spiritual, which results in a new supernatural order.
As befits a collision of the physical and the spiritual, which results in a new supernatural order.
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