‘Christ is risen!’ This great Christian affirmation, the centrepiece of the Easter gospel, is so familiar to many of us that we rarely pause to reflect on it. The New Testament sets us alongside the disciples as they slowly and cautiously grasp the theologically impossible—that God has raised Christ from the dead in a specific place, at a specific point of history. And having accepted the impossible, they cannot stop there. For lying beyond that recognition is an uncharted sea of possibilities