This paper argues that the Incarnation of the triune God is the formative moment of the Christian moral life. In particular, it contends that the death, resurrection, and exaltation of Jesus Christ mark the tripartite culmination of the Incarnation. The Christian moral life is formed in line with this tripartite structure as embodied in the church’s sacraments and ministry. Specifically, the characteristics of suffering (crucifixion), vindication (resurrection), and joy (exaltation) associated with this tripartite structure promote the corresponding virtues of charity, hope, and obedience that are formed and reinforced in practices aligned with the sacraments and ministry. This paper concentrates on the resurrection as the centerpiece of this framework. The central contention is that the Incarnation affirms the creaturely status of humans which is vindicated by Christ’s resurrection. This affirmation and vindication is seen most vividly in the embodied character of human life which is necessarily temporal and finite. In examining what the corresponding virtue of hope entails, the paper develops the principal lineaments of natality, sociality, and mortality. As embodied creatures, humans enact the virtue of hope through their gift-giving (broadly conceived) to subsequent generations, participating in social associations that are delimited by the needs and limits of embodied beings, and consenting to death. These three related series of acts are in turn embedded and expressive of the telos of human life, namely, that of eternal fellowship with the triune God.