Ruth Gledhill asks Did Jesus really rise from the dead? Or perhaps she is simply reporting the question, as asked of Rowan Williams by a friend of Father Geoffrey Kirk (no relation). No doubt Williams’ answer would have been deep and philosophical, maybe not even comprehensible. But I prefer the answer of her commenter “A Renegade Priest”:
Yes He did; I spoke to him this morning, he’s alive and well, reigning in glory, and he sends his love, to you and to everyone.
Indeed! If we can’t give this kind of answer for ourselves, the deep and philosophical answers are never going to be convincing.
Yes, that is good news for those of us who long for a glimpse of glory.
LOL! That’s a good response
Peter,
When I read Gledhill’s post, I thought that she meant that Williams was not clear on whether Jesus rose from the grave. Any way, I join you in saying that indeed, Jesus did rise from the grave. He is alive and it does not matter what others say, JESUS LIVES.
Claude Mariottini
Thank you, Claude. Yes, I understood it that Williams was not clear. I am sure that he believes in the Resurrection, at least in some way, but very likely his language was so complex that his audience was left confused. But in an informal setting
– which makes sense only if he believes that Jesus is alive.
By the way, “no relation” is relative (!). If Father Geoffrey Kirk is closely related to the one time Bishop of Oxford Kenneth Kirk, then I have reason to believe that we have a common ancestor in the male line in about the 15th century. But then I probably have a common ancestor from that time, if not in the male line, with pretty much everyone of British origin.