All 9 Uses of

resurrection
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult

And okay, so maybe he's brought something dead back to life, but if he was the Messiah he would have resurrected everyone.†
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If he was Jesus ....if this was the Second Coming ....well, there'd be rapture and destruction and resurrections and we wouldn't be sitting here having a normal conversation.†

But if you put aside the physical trappings of the body something that all the apostles had had to do after Jesus was resurrected—then maybe anything was possible.†

In some, Jesus spoke in riddles; in others, the Virgin birth and bodily resurrection were dismissed.†

What one person sees as a medically viable stroke of luck, another might see as a resurrection.†

And—this was probably the biggest stumbling block for the bishop—Gnostics didn't think Jesus's resurrection was literal.†

"Almighty God," I murmured, "look on this your servant, lying in great weakness, and comfort him with the promise of life everlasting, given in the resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord.†

He had told me he was coming back—a resurrection—but he had also told me that he'd murdered Kurt Nealon intentionally, and I couldn't hold the two thoughts side by side in my mind.†

Definitions:

(1) (resurrection as in: resurrection of a dream)
to rise again after failure, inactivity, or disuse
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

As a proper noun, Christians use The Resurrection to refer to their belief that Jesus arose from the dead three days after he was killed. In the major monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) Resurrection is also used to refer to the rising of the dead on Judgment Day.