ABSTRACT
The modern Western world is about to fulfill its secularization: that was the common description of the current era, from the 1960s toward the end of the last century. The protests against this development of a successful, fully achieved secular society that would also mark the “end of history,” were considered to be the last scraps of sectarian religious groups refusing to reduce the world to human existence and its activities and possibilities, in favor of their God. The phenomenon of our time usually referred to as the “return of religion” to the socio-political scene or as the development into a post-secular society, is complicated and ambiguous. The resurrection stories in the synoptic gospels are very short. John’s version covers the two final chapters of his text and is therefore the longest. Nancy’s rather provocative thesis seems to have good grounds, so far, and not just because essential coherence of death and life is strongly emphasized by all four evangelists.
