Mark Vernon connects non-religious desires to Christ's rise:
Christianity teaches not resuscitation of the corpse, but the gift of a new body. (Hence, the resurrected Jesus has a body, but it's not like yours or mine – able to appear and disappear, be present but not quite recognised etc.) And is not the desire for a new body one of the dominate narratives in our culture?
Rejuvenating creams, personal trainers, clothes design, body insurance, plastic surgery, virtual reality. I wonder what percentage of the economy is based on a secular, this-worldly version of resurrection? Except that like all desires that are repressed, the original Christian notion returns in a distorted form, purged of the unpleasant talk of death.
The Dish 