We know that Christ is raised and dies no more

We know that Christ is raised and dies no more. John Brownlow Geyer* (1932-2020). This hymn for baptism was written in 1967, as a result of discussions which the author had had with scientists at Cambridge University who were working on DNA (he worked at Cambridge between 1967 and 1969). It depends for its effect on the idea of a transformed creation (‘the universe restored’), manifested in the making of a ‘new cell’ at Baptism, and inspired by the ‘fission’ of the Holy Spirit which ‘shakes’ (from Haggai 2: 21) the church of God. Geyer’s description (quoted in Stulken, 1981, p. 274 and Herl et al., 2019, #603) was: ‘At that time a good deal of work was going on round the corner [of...