Understanding the Resurrection
It is obvious then that biblical and modern anthropological thinking converge in their conception of man as a body-soul unity, a fact that is of crucial importance also for the question of a life after death. When the New Testament speaks of resurrection, it does not refer to the natural continuation of a spirit-soul independent of our bodily functions. What it means -- following the tradition of Jewish theology -- is the new creation, the transformation of the whole person by God's life-creating Spirit. Man is not released then -- platonically --- from us corporality. He is released with and in his -- now glorified, spiritualized -- corporality: a new creation, a new man. Easter is not a feast of immortality, of a postulate of practical reason: it is a feast of Christ, of the crucified Christ now glorified. (p. 111).
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