You Can Only Really See From the Inside

A reflection on how faith isn't like a scientific fact

In parts 27-28 of his classic work On the Incarnation, Athanasius asserts that death has been objectively defeated by the death and resurrection of Jesus, and one of the ways you can see this is true is by observing that, for Christians, “no longer is death fearsome, but all believers in Christ tread on it as nothing.”

First of all, I’m struck by how he …