It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis… . The resurrection is an event which you really only believe if every world view based on any other starting-point has collapsed. It was so for the first apostles, and it has never been otherwise for any generation since.
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| — | Lesslie Newbigin, Honest Religion for Secular Man pp53-54 (1966 printing) |