If you are someone who would like to know more about Christianity, then I highly recommend Tim Keller’s Encounters With Jesus. The chapter entitled “The First Christian” is worth the price of the book.
In reference to Mary Magdalene hearing the risen Christ say her name, Keller concludes:
I have always thought that when Mary Magdalene heard her own name on the lips of the risen Christ she must have felt as Annie Dillard did when she wrote, “I’d been my whole life a bell, but I never knew it until I was lifted up and rung.” Page 102.
