... .Now temporary disembodiment has several theological and philosophical assets. For one thing, many Christian thinkers have seen a equitable fit between it and the view of human nature expressed in the Bible and in the Pauline writings particularly. The Apostle seems to hold that human beings consist both of material bodies and immaterial souls, that the body is not merely an adornment ... these and similar patristic appeals to omnipotence in order to rationalize resurrection, Paul Badham argues as follows: Given belief in a once-for-all act of creation on the pattern of Genesis 1, then t...

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