Sentences with phrase «on bodily resurrection»

One can affirm a bodily resurrection without such literalistic smugness; however, such a dogmatic insistence on a bodily resurrection is often indicative of a vague grasp of the problems involved.

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He never thought, after the Greek fashion, of soul as pure being, capable of disembodiment, but spoke, as his Jewish contemporaries did, of future life in terms of bodily resurrection, and on that basis he discussed life after death with the skeptical Sadducees, protesting only against the popular, contemporary ways of conceiving the raised body and its uses in the next world.

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.

She may have had other concerns, depending on how literally she understood the resurrection of the body to be a raising of this bodily material.

So much of the media focuses on what Crossan questions - the bodily resurrection of Jesus, miracles attributed to Jesus - that people assume he's not a Christian.

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While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

Nowadays even the most conservative defenders of the «bodily resurrection» of Jesus do not hesitate to support their case by arguments resting on an historical or literary basis.

But while Paul's testimony is, historically speaking, of first - class value, when it comes to the question of the story of the empty tomb and the physical nature of the resurrection, his words, far from bringing firm confirmation of the «bodily resurrection», are open to a variety of interpretations, and, on the whole, point to quite a different view of resurrection.

We have now looked at the arguments for «bodily resurrection» based on appeal to the Gospel narratives and have shown that while they certainly support this view of resurrection, some to a lesser, some to a greater degree, the historicity of the narratives is seriously open to question.

Those who maintain that the historical evidence for the «bodily resurrection» is strong, usually rely heavily on the traditional view of Gospel authorship.

Irenaeus (c. 130 - c. 200) concluded from the widely accepted tradition that Jesus himself had descended into the underworld of the dead before rising bodily on the third day, that «the souls of his disciples, for whom the Lord performed this, will depart into an unseen region, set apart for them by God, and they will dwell there until the resurrection which they await.

It was early Christians» refusal of dualism, their demand that God redeem the whole person, that forced on them the question of bodily resurrection.

The contemporary inclination to do away with all differences in eternity in favor of egalitarian conceptions of external life (an outcome of 16th - century Protestant understandings of the spiritual body) has encouraged us to abandon serious reflection on the notion of bodily resurrection.

It is also inconsistent with the reality of the human body on earth, which clearly does not rise, and indeed with the bodily resurrection of Christ and the Assumption of Our Lady.

The bodily resurrection of Christ is basic to Paul's understanding of eternal life, but this very concrete faith that gives rise to his hope that we will join Christ in a resurrection like his becomes less and less comprehensible the more one reflects on the eternity it promises.

Paul was a Pharisee, and Pharisees believed in a bodily resurrection, so if Paul believed that the talking, bright light speaking to him on the Damascus Road was the executed Jesus, then he would of course believe that he had seen the (bodily) resurrected Jesus, even if he had actually not seen a body, but only a bright light!

In the post resurrection gospel narratives describing Jesus» appearance to his disciples we notice again and again that the accounts speak of him in terms of the solid bodily form of Jesus: He eats with them, invites Thomas to place his hand in his wounds, he breaks bread with the disciples on the road to Emmaus, he eats breakfast by the lakeside.

Card sort and accompanying powerpoint on Immortality which includes the views of those who believe in Humanist, Spiritualist, Bodily resurrection and spiritual resurrection.