Jesus' resurrection in Joseph's garden - Flip Schutte (First edition)

The real purpose of myth is not to present an objective picture of the world, but to express man's understanding of himself in the world," argues Flip Schutte in this thought-provoking book, in which he carefully deconstructs the relationship between the resurrection of Christ (as event of salvation history), myth (as human attempt to understand and explain the transcendental) and the Biblical canon (as account of the unfolding of early Christian tradition).

The reader is thus prompted to realize that the emphasis and value of Christ's resurrection is not in its factuality as a historical event, but in the existential message surrounding the myth itself. Within this view, the resurrection becomes a metaphor for God's love—a love that is not confined to the narratives of the Bible or the teachings of the Church, but that can be seen and read everywhere in his creation.