A beautifully crafted book with Easter meditations, this title is set in a quiet type and enriched by ten full-color reproductions of classic paintings. The cross and the resurrection--suffering and defeat of death--were central themes in the writings and in the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian hanged by the Nazis in 1945.

It is important to realize that Mary, and the disciples, and the many others who saw the resurrected Jesus over the forty days after He walked out of His tomb were eyewitnesses to the historical reality. The witnesses included over five hundred people on just one occasion. The power of death was broken that spring morning. The world would never be the same. "Will you pause and let yourself try to experience their excitement as they visited with the resurrected Savior, Jesus the Son of God?"

Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads, Strobel uses his experience as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune to interview experts about the evidence for Christ from the fields of science, philosophy, and history.

In The Reality of the Resurrection Stefan Alkier bridges the chasm between history and theology. Through a patient historical, canonical, and hermeneutical study, Alkier demonstrates that the resurrection of Jesus is inextricably bound to the general eschatological resurrection of the dead. Jesus' resurrection is no isolated miracle but is instead the crucial disclosure of the nature of reality, the identity of God, and the destiny of human beings. The Reality of the Resurrection witnesses to that which Paul names as of "first importance"--not only for the early Christian communities but also for the shaping of our communities today.

Francis Moloney has provided a comprehensive narrative reading of the resurrection stories of all four Gospels, in close association with their passion narratives, to which they are the stunning response. The book traces how the four evangelists' different telling of the resurrection stories has "narrated" the action of God for Jesus, and the action of God and Jesus for all Christians in and through the early Church's belief and experience of the resurrection of Jesus. The final chapter discusses what we can recover about the events of Easter day and, more importantly, what these events meant then, and continue to mean today.

After clarifying the meaning of Jesus' resurrection from the dead, this book presents the reasons that support believing in it and accepting the promise it conveys.

Based on the Revised Common Lectionary and broadly ecumenical, this addition to the Just In Time series provides creative liturgies, sermon helps, and prayers for Easter Vigil, Easter Sunday, and the 40 days of Easter.