Jordan Peterson: the bestselling author and clinical psychologist on why there’s still power in the Easter story

Easter Sunday is the appropriate time to be considering both the impossible claim of the bodily resurrection of one man, and the hypothetically cosmic and world-redeeming significance of that event. This is true, despite the fact that no finite conceptual account of the idea of Christ’s death and rebirth can be finally formulated. Even for die-hard and essentially reductionist atheists of the scientific type (think Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris), a great mystery remains: why has this thoroughly implausible story exercised such immense impact? Archetypal stories simply cannot be superseded, replaced or emptied by any single interpretation,critical or laudatory. But it’s worth soldiering forward, and making what sense can and must be made, despite that inescapable limitation. The story of the dying and resurrecting God