Yet it is no less real and powerful. In this way, Bradman transcended his own life and times. But this was an exceptional reaction. More often we seem uncomfortable to acknowledge and discuss transcendent experiences in our lives. This is particularly so when they are of the religious or spiritual kind.
Easter is a case in point.
It is surprising, though, that for many professed Christians, too, Easter has become little more than a welcome break from routine. It is almost as though to dwell on the religious significance of Easter means conceding that human activity is not the measure of all things and so to invite ridicule. This attitude is encouraged by a powerful revisionist trend in modern biblical scholarship that regards what happened on that first Easter as little more than a raising of consciousness. There was no empty tomb, so the argument goes, but only an emptying out of the doubts and reservations Jesus' followers had about the claim that he was, in fact, the Son of God. The original account of Easter asserts something very different.