He wrote: The word resurrection has for many people the connotation of dead bodies leaving their graves or other fanciful images. But resurrection means the victory of a new state of things, the New Being born out of death of the Old. Resurrection is not an event that might happen in some remote future but is the power of the New Being to create life out of death, here and now, today and tomorrow.
Where there is New Being, there is resurrection, namely, the creation into eternity out of every moment of time. The New Being puts a new mark over the old one. Out of disintegration and death something is born of eternal significance. That which is immersed in dissolution emerges in a New Creation. Resurrection happens now, or it does not happen at all. It happens in us and around us, in soul and history, in nature and universe.
Ilia Delio elaborates in his 2011 book “The Emergent Christ.” He wrote: “The key to resurrection is in the title Christ. Christ is the Anointed One, the power of God’s love that draws together created being into the divine unbroken wholeness of love. Although we think of Jesus Christ as an individual person, the Christ relates to the Hebrew idea of corporate personality…The church fathers also spoke of Christ as a corporate personality…The Christ therefore refers to the whole and not to an individual person. Jesus Christ is the human person who symbolizes the capacity for all human persons to be united and transformed in God.”
Confusing? Certainly. Nevertheless, we all are the Body of Christ. We all are anointed ones through Baptism and Confirmation. We all are new beings experiencing a new state of things. We are resurrected when we “create life out of death, here and now, today and tomorrow.” That creation comes through love, forgiveness, compassion, and being reconciled with those we love. We use the power of New Being and of love to be Christs to those around and near us. We resurrect them.
Deacon David Pierce
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