Easter: The Season of the Resurrection of Jesus (The Fullness of Time)

by Wesley Hill

Publisher:

IVP

, 2025

Overview

"He is risen indeed!"

Easter Sunday is the holiest day of the year, a day when even those who don’t usually observe the Christian calendar or attend liturgical churches greet each other with the proclamation "Christ is risen!"

But Easter is more than a day―it’s a season even longer than Lent. In fact, for the Christian who has died with Christ and been brought to life in him, Easter is the new, joyous, and radical way of living. The world is turned upside down. In this short volume, priest and New Testament scholar Wesley Hill explores the history and significance of Easter for the church and for our own spiritual formation.

This volume of the Fullness of Time series offers readers

An accessible, digestible introduction to the history and practice of the season of Easter

Practical application of the Scriptural story and theology of Easter to our own spiritual formation, and

A helpful contextualization of the Easter season into the context of the rest of the church calendar.

Each volume in the Fullness of Time series invites readers to engage with the riches of the church year, exploring the traditions, prayers, Scriptures, and rituals of the seasons of the church calendar.

Key Features

• Offers readers an accessible introduction to the history and practice of the season of Easter
• Invites readers to engage with the riches of the church year.
• Explores the traditions, prayers, Scriptures, and rituals of the seasons of the church calendar.

Contents

The Fullness of Time: Series Preface by Esau McCaulley

Introduction: The Passover of the Lord
1. The First Easter
2. “We Shall Also Live with Him”
3. “Thou Wast Up by Break of Day”
4. World Upside Down
5. The Right Hand of God
Conclusion: “Let Him Easter in Us”

Acknowledgments
Notes

Product Details

• Title: Easter: The Season of the Resurrection of Jesus (The Fullness of Time)
• Author: Wesley Hill
• Edition: First edition
• Series: The Fullness of Time
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Easter
• ISBNs: 9781514000373, 9781514000366, 1514000377, 1514000369
• Resource ID: LLS:STRSSNRFLLNSSTM
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-02-04T22:47:24Z

About Wesley Hill

Wesley Hill (PhD, Durham University) is assistant professor of biblical studies at Trinity School for Ministry. He is the author of Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters and the much-discussed Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality. Hill is on the editorial board of and is a columnist for Christianity Today. He also contributes to Books and Culture and First Things.