The post-Easter Jesus is what Jesus became after his death. More fully, the post-Easter Jesus is the Jesus of Christian experience and tradition. Both nouns are important. By the post-Easter Jesus of Christian experience, i mean that Jesus continued to be experienced by his followers after his death as a divine reality of the present, and that such experiences continue to happen today; some Christians, but not all, have such experience. The post-Easter Jesus is thus an experiential reality. By the post Easter Jesus of Christian tradition, I mean the Jesus we encounter in the developing traditions of the early Christian movement--int he gospels and the New Testament as a whole, as well as in the creeds.
-Marcus Borg, The Heart of Christianity, pg. 82
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