““Christ’s passivity in his resurrection reflects his identification and solidarity with believers in being raised from the dead. For Paul—certainly not in conflict with, but other than, the way it is often understood—the resurrection is not the especially evident display and powerful proof of Christ’s divinity, but rather the vindication of the incarnate Christ in his suffering and obedience unto death, and with that vindication, the powerful transformation of him in his humanity. In the terms of Romans 1:4, by virtue of the resurrection he is now, comparatively, what he was not previously, “the Son of God in power.”54””
