powerful testimonies to belief in the resurrection: “If Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain” (v. 14). Paul is not content with simply stressing the belief that Jesus is risen; he wishes to show that this belief brings both present and future consequences for the believer. He explains the resurrected body through the analogy of a seed that needs to die in order to become a tree or plant. Paul’s is the first attempt to develop a “theology