Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index.

"Placing" the resurrection -- A theological problem -- The awkwardness of the resurrection for theology -- Reason and resurrection -- A resurrectional attitude -- A postmodern opportunity -- The Resurrection and the disturbance of categories -- Conclusion: a phenomenological standpoint -- A phenomenological approach to the resurrection -- The phenomenological turn -- The resurrection as saturated phenomenon -- Aspects of the resurrection-phenomenon -- The resurrection as revelation -- The resurrection as event -- The resurrection as aesthetic form -- The resurrection as "flesh" -- The resurrection and the face of christ -- Saturated phenomenon or mystery? -- The resurrection and the phenomenon of the new testament -- Receptivity to the divinely given -- Interpretation in the light of christ -- Rhetorics of receptivity and excess -- Light in darkness -- The resurrection event -- The multi-dimensional phenomenon; -- Dimensions of the resurrection-event -- The paschal aspect: the resurrection of the crucified -- The paternal, generative source -- Filial identity -- Spirit: the effusive aspect the event -- Sacrament: the church as body of christ -- Eschatological anticipation -- The light of the resurrection -- The light and its meaning: patterns of rhetoric -- Arcs of rhetoric -- Dimensions of meaning -- Paul and the resurrection effect -- Paul's transformative experience; -- Conversion to the risen one: its narrative setting; -- From experience to meaning -- Corinthians 15: 1-28 -- Philippians 2: 5-11 -- Resurrection: the visual phenomenon -- A continuing dialectic -- The appearances of the risen christ -- The economy of seeing: an end and a beginning -- The other paraclete -- Subjectivity, objectivity,and the resurrection -- The polarities of subject and object -- The complexity of experience -- Assumptions questioned -- The saturation of the phenomenon -- Conclusion: the play of polarities -- The salvific realism of the resurrection -- Salvific objectivity -- Salvific realism -- The divine initiative -- Presence and absence -- The humanity of the risen one -- Forgiveness -- The empty tomb -- Overture to world history -- Salvific subjectivity -- A new beginning -- The disciples' new understanding; -- Called to witness; -- A universal horizon -- A reactive world -- Tensions of the resurrection effect -- The resurrection and the trinity -- The resurrection and moral theology -- Transcultural openness -- Resurrection as horizon.