The Iconoclasm of the Resurrection

Came across this wonderful passage in the Resurrection of the Son of God by NT Wright:

"What if the moratorium on speaking of Jesus' bodily resurrection, which has been kept in place until recently more by the critics' tone of voice than by sustained historical argument ('surely,' they imply on the edge of every discussion of the subject, 'you cannot be so impossibly naive as to think that something actually happened?'), should itself turn out to be part of that intellectual and cultural hegemony against which much of the world is now doing its best to reach? What if the resurrection, instead of (as is often imagined) legitimating a cosy, comfortable, socially and culturally conservative form of Christianity, should turn out to be, in the twenty-first century as in the first, the most socially, culturally and politically explosive force imaginable, blasting its way through the sealed tombs and locked doors of modernist epistemology and the (now) deeply conservative social and political culture which it sustains? (p. 713, emphasis mine) "