debate on Jesus resurrection

The debate going on these days about Jesus and particularly his resurrection, I think, is going on in the wrong context. The quote we focused around at Fairlawn West UCC yesterday (Easter) was this from Frederick Buechner, "The earliest reference to the Resurrection is Saint Paul's and he makes no mention of an empty tomb at all. But the fact of the matter is that in a way it hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever since."