Os Guinness on the Resurrection

'In the erosion of Christian culture, post-Christian man has turned from the truth of God but still twists uncomfortably, holding what he needs of truth to be man while denying what he dislikes of truth in favor of his own chosen premises. Some search for social justice but to their shame exchange the Galilean carpenter for the bourgeois scribbler in the British museum; some seek for the suffering but miss the Man of Sorrows and follow shadowy avatars to a Nirvanic no man's land; others, looking for an exit from it all, miss the clarion call to freedom, "I am the Way, I am the Truth and I am the Life" and stumble along a road which leads nowhere, dusty with death. ...The Christian life is not just difficult for man; it is impossible. But it is exactly here that humanism leaves off and Christianity begins. That is also why this uniquely "impossible" faith-with a God who is, with an Incarnation that is earthly and historical, with a salvation that is at cross-purposes with human nature, with a Resurrection that blasts apart the finality of death-is able to provide an alternative to the sifting, settling dust of death and through a new birth open the way to new life.'