The Significance of Jesus' Resurrection for Humans and the World

 Christian faith is born out of two foundational experi­-
ences: “This Jesus of Nazareth is Lord and God” and "This Jesus
was dead but rose again”. The Christian faith-experience of God
in Jesus Christ begins with the encounter of the first apostles and
other disciples with Jesus as alive after he was crucified, died
and was buried.This existential encounter transformed their en­-
tire lives that they began to experience God, other humans and
the world in a way hitherto unknown to them. In the beginning
they had no categories to articulate who Jesus was and what was
his new mode of existence. Since they shared with their co-reli­-
gionists the hope for an eschatological resurrection of all believ­-
ers they interpreted their unique experience of Jesus as alive af­
ter his death as resurrection. In their encounter with Jesus they
realized that he is the beginning and the end of their lives, the
absolute meaning of their lives and, therefore, their Lord and God.
In his resurrection they recognized the beginning and guarantee
of the resurrection of all and the transformation of all things. Jesus’
resurrection revealed that he is the Alpha and the Omega of the
entire creation. The authors show that the resurrection of Jesus
gives us an insight into the mystery of God, humans and the world.
It demands from humans take responsibility for the world and
that they confront structures and systems that attempt to thwart
the actualization of the effects of resurrection for the entire hu­-
manity and for entire creation.