Resurrection

 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

The resurrection of Jesus is the primal event of time. It is the event wherein eternity leaps out of time in the form and with the content of the everlasting promise of a redemption into eternal life. Time flows into eternity through the absolute rupture of this event, encounters the mirror of the eternal and is reflected back into itself with the promise of eternity, with hope. That which was weak, lowly and suffering, of flesh and blood, a mortal child of time and of death, encounters itself in its full fragility of a broken vessel, gazes into the mirror of eternity and with that gaze becomes eternal. That is the promise of Resurrection. It's a necessary and inevitable promise.

Through Resurrection, the suffering flesh and the impassible godhead become one Spirit. The humanity of the one and the divinity of the other become one Spirit. The resurrection of Jesus accomplishes the reconciliation of the temporal and the eternal. In this act of reconciliation the atonement is as much of the Son of man as of the son of god. For what is atonement? Atonement is as much for the evil engendered as for evil suffered. God attains for man in the figure of Jesus Christ. "Blessed are those who mourn." Mourning is the atonement of God and blessing the atonement of man. For god cannot atone but through  blessing and man cannot atone but through mourning. In resurrection, this dual but selfsame atonement is accomplished. the event of resurrection is the manifestation of this eternal selfsame Spirit which is the holy triune god. there is one atonement - of man and of god in fulfilled in the inevitable Resurrection that is the fruit of this pure and holy atonement.

An atonement that is only of god or only of man is an atonement that returns fruitless in its trajectory from origin to end, from Alpha to Omega. It returns unto itself unatoned. Man's atonement needed God and so did God's atonement man. The reconciliation of the twain is effected in the figure of the Resurrected Jesus christ. Resurrection, therefore, is the foundational event of the Christian dogma. It reconciles man to god and God to man. It is as much the self-offering of man to God as it is of God to man.