Sentences with phrase «resurrection of the body»

Christians who believe in the creation of all things by a benevolent (and beneficent) God; in his enfleshment in Jesus of Nazareth, and in the eschatological resurrection of the body do have a persistent loyalty to matter and to things that invites an act of cosmic allegiance.

To eat Christ's flesh, incorporating it into yours (or yours into his, as some see it), involves a physical intimacy through which you participate directly in the Incarnation and anticipate the promised resurrection of your body from the grave.

Cullmann argues that there is no biblical link between resurrection of the body and the soul's immortality.

You don't actually believe in a PHYSICAL resurrection of the body, but rather a SPIRITUAL resurrection of something quite different from a body.

It was the first major teaching of his pontificate, and covered adultery, celibacy and virginity, marriage, contraception and the resurrection of the body.

Although she is not specifically addressing environmental thought, this is an argument pressed by Caroline Walker Bynum in her recent and remarkable study, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity.

One of the problems, I suspect, is that contemporary Christians do not take as seriously as we should our human embodiment and our hope for the resurrection of the body.

Abraham Geiger, a major thinker in the nineteenth - century Reform movement, declared that the idea of a postmortem existence «should not be expressed in terms which suggest a future revival, a resurrection of the body; rather they must stress the immortality of the soul.»

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

Seventh and finally, the song of redemptive hope, of the resurrection of the body; of our bodies that encompass the stuff of the creation of which we are part; of our bodies that participate in the body of Christ that is the Church, and therefore anticipate, already now, that perfect communion with God for which the whole creation waits with eager longing.

And the final thesis: «It is beyond the limits of Catholic orthodoxy to deny any basis for our hope in the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.»

Jonas was not a Christian, but one is struck by how very much this argument that both are valid and inseparable is at the heart of classic Christian thought regarding the resurrection of the body.

Life After Death: The Evidence by Dinesh D'Souza Regnery, 256 pages, $ 27.95 While much apologetic effort has been spent arguing for the existence of God, relatively little has been spent defending the reasonableness of belief in an afterlife and the resurrection of the body, despite the fact....

The pagan Greeks and Romans cremated their dead, but the Jews who believed in the resurrection of the body laid their dead to rest in tombs.

That the souls of the just enjoy the Beatific Vision while yet awaiting the resurrection of their bodies is also solemnly defined doctrine (Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1000; cf. Lumen Gentium 49).

The Third Article: Sanctification I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

From around the time of the French Revolution (1789) onwards some people expressed their contempt for Christian belief in the resurrection of the body and the existence of the soul by choosing cremation instead of Christian burial.

As a Christian I believe in the resurrection of the body, and my thinking about it begins with the resurrection of Jesus.

Building on the Platonic understanding of hell as the place where unpunished violations of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence of our free will («the other side of human dignity») and of the significance of human action, opening up trains of thought in the direction of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body - and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms of logic and reason.

It simply stated belief in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, with assent to the «holy Christian Church, the community of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and an everlasting life» treated collectively under the working of the Holy Spirit.

We know from the whole sweep of the Gospels and the Pastoral letters, and from the writings of the saints of the early Church, that these people meant what they said, lived standards higher than any heretofore existing on earth, andhoped for a fullness of Salvation, and a resurrection of the body simply because Christ did so rise.

This is not gruesome: as Addis and Arnold wrote in relation to relics in their Catholic Dictionary, because of the doctrine of the resurrection of the body «Christians have lost that horror of dead bodies which was characteristic of the heathen».

As a consequence, the old theology de-emphasized or conveniently ignored the fact of the resurrection of the body and the redemption of material creation and spoke instead and almost exclusively of the salvation of the soul pictured as being supratemporal and metaphysical.

More will be said on the Biblical view of man later, but it is sufficient to point out here, that it is just because the Bible hardly anywhere reflects a doctrine of an immortal soul, that the Christian hope took the form of the resurrection of the body.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic and apostolic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

This model conflicts with the Christian affirmation of the body that is implicit in the doctrines of creation, incarnation and the resurrection of the body.

The resurrection of the body certainly points to the ultimate value of the body, the material dimension of afterlife, and sees the whole person as the ultimate goal.

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.

A typical theology keeps the discussion of the resurrection of the body in its proper biblical context — the resurrection of the dead.

In this way, a relational view affirms both God's primacy and the resurrection of the dead, not just the resurrection of the body.

Our future hope in the resurrection of the body and the forgiveness of sin is scientifically foolish.

In fact, the resurrection of the body would be only a momentary experience, passing out of actuality almost as soon as it became actual unless there were a resurrection of the dead to sustain it.

The other is the actual condition of our bodily selves in the afterlife, what has customarily been referred to as the resurrection of the body.

These points fit in with a relational view of reality and can be amplified by looking more closely at that view and asking: How would the resurrection of the body be interpreted in a relational approach?

In this view, the resurrection of the body is immediate, and the soul is the prime agent.

The result is a not very satisfying explanation of the resurrection of the body in the context of the resurrection of the dead.

Her ashes have a value as a concrete focal point for those who knew her, but the resurrection of the body doesn't pertain to this remnant as such.

Finally, the resurrection of the body is integrally related to the resurrection of the dead as God's act whereby each individual is related to all others through God's relational experience.

How does this relate to the resurrection of the body?

The bodysoul experience just described is the initial moment or phase of the resurrection of the body.

This touches on the second theological issue lying behind the irate sister's feelings — the resurrection of the body.

In lecturing on Plato's dialogue Phaedo, where Socrates sets forth the view that the afterlife is a state of being where the soul passively contemplates the eternal Forms, I would draw a clear contrast between that and the New Testament teaching about the resurrection of the body.

The story of this true man culminates in a resurrection of the body — that is, in a vindication of the creation.

Against those who hold that the resurrected will have a heavenly body, he pointed out that resurrection means initially the resurrection of the body laid in the earth.

Their way of thinking was in terms of the older Jewish belief in «resurrection of the body» — and hence the only manner in which they could proclaim that Jesus had not been put out of the way through death was to say that he had indeed been «raised from the dead», that he was in and with God, and that those who belonged to him were granted a share in the risen life which was properly his own.