The ‘blasphemer’ who rose from the dead

The ‘blasphemer’ who rose from the dead Caravaggio – ‘The Incredulity of Saint Thomas’, circa 1601-1602. Thomas touches the wounds of the risen Christ, confronting the reality of the Resurrection. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.

We are simultaneously overfamiliar with Christianity and not familiar with it at all. We look at the ‘strangeness’ of the Christian story, yet we are rarely struck by it as we should be. We are taught that 2,000 years ago God became fully man, while remaining fully God and was born to a woman in…

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