Sentences with phrase «bodily resurrection»

That is why bodily resurrection is so important to Christian theology.

Also, I would include all the Gospel stories of miracles, including the literally bodily resurrection of Jesus.

I should note that one theologian whose writings on bodily resurrection and eschatology show a sophisticated awareness of some of the implications of modernphysics is Joseph Ratzinger.

I suspect he'd reaffirm his view that Christian salvation would surely comprise bodily resurrection as well as spiritual survival.

It was new birth without bodily resurrections and forgiveness without atonement.

In this remarkable study, Bynum explores literary images, artistic depictions, doctrines and social contexts in which Christians affirmed bodily resurrection.

Now following the link of «Resurrection of the dead» wiki agrees with the early point of not bodily resurrection but «national resurrection

The age - long and still influential Christian doctrine of bodily resurrection thus goes back to primitive Hebrew behaviorism, which always conceived soul as a function of the material organism and never, like Greek philosophy, conceived immortality as escape from the imprisoning flesh.

To such spiritual final abodes of the blessed there could not be a mere bodily resurrection.

She makes the problem of bodily resurrection increasingly vital — emotionally, cognitively and ethically.

According to Vass, Rahner gives no assurance to the immortality of the soul, and sees as feasible the possibility of bodily resurrection immediately after death.

First, the interest in bodily resurrection demonstrates that Christians understood the person as composed of soul and body, not primarily as soul.

Bynum does not claim to know exactly what earlier understandings of bodily resurrection say to us, but she intuits that they tell us something if we have ears to hear and eyes to see.

Then the tradition shows that the question began to be explored of how this might have come about; and, particularly in a Jewish environment where there was a strong belief in a future bodily resurrection, the natural explanation would have been that Jesus» physical body emerged to life out of the grave.

American Reform Judaism, in its famous 1885 Pittsburgh platform, declared that bodily resurrection belongs in the set of «ideas not rooted in Judaism.»

In considering the Easter story, for instance, Cox describes the biblical accounts of Jesus» bodily resurrection as the confused ramblings of disciples who knew no other way to express their feeling that their rabbi remained somehow present in their lives.

Also what the Pharisees believed in was not bodily resurrection but «the resurrection» when israel is restored.

Saving 2 billion lost Christians including the Mormons: There were never any bodily resurrections and there will never be any bodily resurrections i.e. No Easter, no Christianity and no communion!

Elaine Pagels, among others, has argued that the success of the affirmation of a bodily resurrection was due to the way it functioned in the early Church, as it served to legitimate the authority of a narrow circle of bishops.

Then there is the Super Bowl of All the Con Games, The Bodily Resurrection of the Preacher Man aka Jesus::

While most Americans reject a bodily resurrection, solid majorities of many major religious groups affirm it.

In any event, it seems to me more than probable that the promptings of environmental thought, combined with intensified interaction between science and theology, might well produce in the coming years an efflorescence of Christian reflection that unfolds as yet undeveloped truths that are latent in cardinal doctrines such as creation, redemption, and the promise of bodily resurrection.

Overall, 37 percent of Americans believe there will be a bodily resurrection of the dead, compared to 72 percent who express a positive belief that there is life after death.

So after asking respondents about life after death and about heaven and hell, we asked them, «Do you think there will be a bodily resurrection, that is, where the bodies of deceased persons will rise again?»

And never will be just as there never will be any bodily resurrections.

1 Peter 3:18 — during the crucifixion when Christ died — Jesus died in the flesh, but his deity was alive «alive in the spirit» (a Spirit can not die, therefore when a verse says «raise from the dead» it can only refer to a bodily resurrection)

God uses the analogy of a bodily resurrection that he might illustrate the national resurrection of his people Israel.

A descent into Hell, a bodily resurrection and ascension stories were promulgated to compete with the Caesar myths.

Believing in angels, satans, bodily resurrections, atonement, and heavens of all kinds as does Osteen is irrational.

After all, BO also believes in «pretty / ugly wingie thingies, bodily resurrections and atonement mumbo jumbo.

This would require the courts to come to grips with the significant stupidity of bodily resurrections, changing bread and water / wine into bodies and blood, atonement of sin et al..

This is evident from the fact that when the hope of life after death emerged, it took the form of bodily resurrection.

Cremation — a disposition method that was associated with pagans — was seen as an act of disbelief in the bodily resurrection.

Even now Catholic / Christian professors (e.g.Notre Dame, Catholic U, Georgetown) of theology are questioning the bodily resurrection of the simple, preacher man aka Jesus.

I doubt that he would personally object to bodily resurrection, ascension, and enthronement, although these are not the themes of his teaching.

To be sure, we have an expanded canon of Scripture, but nothing within the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, or Pearl of Great Price contradicts what is taught in the Bible regarding the virgin birth (which, by the way, we definitely believe in), teachings, miracles, atoning sacrifice, or bodily resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

Perhaps it is, and if so, it becomes the sheet anchor of belief in a «bodily resurrection.»

15:4) does not necessarily imply a belief in a bodily resurrection, and, since there is no mention here of the empty tomb, it probably does not; rather, it indicates the reality and finality of Jesus» death (he had been actually dead and buried), and just possibly hints that in his burial the prophecy of Isaiah 53:9 had been fulfilled.

Unless one can accept, say, the doctrines of the Virgin Birth, the bodily Resurrection of Jesus, and the Trinity, then one can not be a Christian believer.

And though the author of 1 Peter writes in terms that might get us thinking of disembodied souls (imperishable, undefiled, unfading), it is the bodily resurrection of Christ that's at the center of his living hope.

Up to now our attention has been focused on the last things in the lives of individuals: personal death, particular judgment, immortality, an interim state, heaven / hell, and bodily resurrection.