Christ Is Risen, Christ Is Living

The hymn text is by Argentinian poet and Disciples of Christ minister Nicolás Martinez (1917-72) and is based upon 1 Corinthians 15:12-23.  Translating the hymn into English was the task of the Dutch-born English Congregationalist minister, Fred Kaan (1929-2009).  This translation's use of many one-syllable words provides the hymn with a driving, staccato vibrancy appropriate to the hymn's Easter message.  The tune, CENTRAL, was composed in 1960 by Pablo Sosa and takes its name from Central United Methodist Church in Buenos Aires.  The tune has an energetic rhythm, suggesting accompaniment better suited to a guitar than an organ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHaGl8l6KsE    (text in original Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbJIEYynlGA   (piano with solo voice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRuozXbJ7A&pbjreload=10  (Christ Church, Fitchburg, Mass. [Episcopalian], English and Spanish with assorted instruments, choir)

1.  

Christ is risen, Christ is living,

    Dry your tears, be unafraid!

Death and darkness could not hold Him,

    Nor the tomb in which He lay.

Do not look among the dead for

    One who lives forevermore;

Tell the world that Christ is risen,

    Make it known He goes before.

2. 

If the Lord had never risen,

    We’d have nothing to believe;

But His promise can be trusted:

    “You will live, because I live.”

As we share the death of Adam,

    So in Christ we live again;

Death has lost its sting and terror,

    Christ the Lord has come to reign.

3. 

Death has lost its old dominion,

    Let the world rejoice and shout!

Christ, the firstborn of the living,

    Gives us life and leads us out.

Let us thank our God, who causes

    Hope to spring up from the ground.

Christ is risen, Christ is giving

    Life eternal, life profound.

1.

¡Cristo vive, fuera_el llanto,

    los lamentos y_el pesar!

Ni la muerte ni_el sepulcro

    lo_han podido sujetar.

No busquéis entre los muertos

    al que siempre_ha de vivir,

¡Cristo vive, estas nuevas

    por doquier dejad oir.

2. 

Que si Cristo no viviera

    vana fuera nuestra fe;

Mas se cumple su promesa:

    “Porque vivo, viviréis.”

Si_en Adán entró la muerte,

    por Jesús la vida_entró;

No temáis, el triunfo_es vuestro:

    ¡El Señor resucitó!

3. 

Si es verdad que de la muerte

    el pecado es aguijón,

No temáis pues Jesucristo

    nos da vida y salvación.

Gracias demos al Dios Padre

    que nos da seguridad,

Que quien cree en Jesucristo

    vive por la eternidad.