Adverb
In a resurrecting manner.
Usage- Rare
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The sun came out that day, and shone brightly and encouragingly, and even resurrectingly it seemed to me, on both bloom and bee.
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Today? The nineteenth. Six days before he was to go East; four shopping days, sang the radio, till Christmas. Carefully he had planned this day. Lovingly. Resurrectingly! Looking himself over in the mirror as he was about to depart—for his shot first, then the Loop—he had only decided to phone on the chance that Theresa herself might be home, just to make certain, to check up.
Likewise the theology of God crucified, the weakness of the cross, the divine bias to the poor and impotent, makes no idol or ideology of powerlessness. The gospel does not abhor power but reconceives it radically, saying that cruciform weakness is itself powerful—divinely, creatively, resurrectingly so.
Supposedly, the reason I come here each time is that I’ve forever remembered what a unique place it is on this earth, and how resurrectingly wholesome it is, making no threats and imposing no demands, existing so independently of you that it doesn’t even reject you—that is, the kind of place where, in the marvelous words of Olga S., “soul is miscible with body in all proportions.”
So we educators ought to help our students get straight the significance of the work they are doing now, in college, and the work they are preparing to do as professionals. They ought neither to bow before it idolatrously nor take it lightly as a mere marking time, messing around. It is deathly, and resurrectingly, serious, yet it is not God, but only one of God’s angels.