This amazing exploration of the meaning of Resurrection is from Hans Kung, (March 19, 1928- Apr. 6, 2021):
“… Resurrection means a life that bursts through the dimensions of space and time in God’s invisible, imperishable, incomprehensible domain. This is what is meant by ‘heaven’- not the heaven of the astronauts but God’s heaven. It means going into reality not going out. Resurrection, therefore, means that Jesus did not die into nothingness, but in death died into that incomprehensible and comprehensible, absolutely last/ absolutely first reality, was indeed taken up into the most real reality which we designate by the name of God. And it is this very act that the first witnesses regard, as having universal importance, as having importance even for us.”
Hans Kung is directly in the same mystical tradition as the “Cloud of Unknowing” and Meister Eckhardt. He states that our experience of Jesus’ Resurrection is a journey inward into ourselves, through a cloud of unknowing, “through the dimensions of time and space” into God’s “ETERNAL NOW.” “This is what is meant by “heaven.” “It is not going OUT of reality but INTO reality.”
That ultimate reality is God’s FOREVER : ETERNITY, where there is no beginning and no end. It is an ETERNAL NOW, where everything that has ever happened and everything that will ever happen exists forever in the mystery of God.
This is what faith leads us to. This is why St. Paul can say “Death where is thy sting?” And why the Last Book of the Bible can say “Death is no more !”
And Jesus has the final word : “I am the resurrection and the life, he/she who believes in me will never die.”
Sal Umana 