The resurrection can only be received and affirmed and celebrated as the new action of God whose province it is to create new futures for people and to let them be amazed in the midst of despair.

—Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination

I am not a fan of Brueggemann because I think much of his writing is mired in the hopelessness of liberal revision that seeks to rewrite the Christian faith to match its own fallen and despairing image. Perhaps that is why I also find great swaths of his writing to be incomprehensible. Nevertheless, he hits a home run with his statement above.