The Resurrection Life – A Reading List for Easter!

[easyazon_link identifier=”B00J7Q3VAY” locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Invasion of the Dead: Preaching Resurrection[/easyazon_link] 

Brian Blount

Our world and our churches are neither sinful nor lost, they are dead. This dead world is the one that God engages and into which Jesus invaded with a radically different vision of life.

In this groundbreaking work, based on his 2011 Yale Beecher lectures, Brian K. Blount helps preachers effectively proclaim resurrection in a world consumed by death. Recognizing that both popular culture and popular Christianity are mesmerized by death and dying, Blount offers an alternative apocalyptic vision for our time—one that starts with a clear vision of life that obliterates death and reveals life’s essence. Blount explores the portrait and meaning of resurrection through the New Testament (the Book of Revelation, the letters of Paul, and the Gospel of Mark) and explores how to biblically and theologically reconfigure apocalyptic preaching for today. With three illustrative sermons, this book is an ideal resource to help preachers proclaim the power of resurrection.

[easyazon_link identifier=”1451498063″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]This Risen Existence: The Spirit of Easter[/easyazon_link] 

Paula Gooder

Although Easter is the most significant event in the Christian year, we rarely take time to explore what it means in detail. So much attention is given to Lent, yet the theology of resurrection is central not only to what we believe about God and Jesus but to our understanding of ourselves. Following the pattern of her Advent book, The Meaning Is in the Waiting, Paula Gooder leads us on a biblical exploration of the resurrection accounts in each of the Gospels and in Paul’s writings, as well as the account of the Ascension and coming of the Spirit at Pentecost in Acts. Arranged for daily reading through the seven weeks of Eastertide, This Risen Existence opens with an extended reflection on ancient and contemporary understandings of resurrection. Subsequent chapters lead us on an exciting journey of discovery through the New Testament narratives in a quest to discover what resurrection tells us about life after death, the end times, and what it actually means to be a Christian.

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IMAGE CREDIT: Detail from the cover of [easyazon_link identifier=”0664262643″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]The Sign and the Sacrifice: The Meaning of the Cross and Resurrection[/easyazon_link] by Rowan Williams.