resurrection of the flesh
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resurrection · resurrection of the dead · resurrection of the body · the resurrection · the resurrection of the dead · the resurrection of the flesh · fullness of the resurrection · restitution of the body · restitution of the flesh · resurrection in every respect of that flesh
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De Carnis Resurrectione
The doctrine that the flesh itself, not only the soul, will rise from death, central to the entire passage.
This whole revolving order of things, then, is a witness to the resurrection of the dead.
For so they acknowledge half a resurrection — that of the soul alone — while they spurn the flesh, just as they spurn the very Lord of the flesh.
Now, if we have proved both, I would have you ask also about the cause — whether there be any cause so worthy as may vindicate the resurrection of the flesh as necessary and certainly in every way due to reason;
Stromata
Doctrine debated concerning whether resurrection has already occurred and what it implies about eating, drinking, and marriage.
If, then, they have already received the resurrection, as they say, and for this reason reject marriage, let them neither eat nor drink;
" This Zoroaster Plato says came to life again, lying twelve days upon the pyre.
Adversus Marcionem
The doctrine that the flesh itself, not merely the soul, will rise again, defended against deniers.
If, therefore, the apostle rebuts those who deny the resurrection of the flesh, surely against them he upholds what they denied, namely the resurrection of the flesh.
But, turning us from fornication, he makes manifest the resurrection of the flesh.
So fully did he both confirm the resurrection of the flesh — without which neither can a thing be called body nor anything else understood as mortal — and prove the bodily substance of Christ;
Apologeticum
The doctrine that the same body and soul that lived will be restored for judgment, defended at length against the alternative of transmigration.
But he who hopes for the true resurrection from God, if he suffers for God, is mad.
Doubt will be felt, I suppose, of the powers of God — of him who imposed this so great body of the world out of that which was not, no less than out of the death of vacancy and emptiness, animated by the Spirit, the animator of all souls, and itself signed as the very example of human resurrection, for a witness to you.
And therefore there shall then be neither death any more, nor resurrection again and again, but we shall be the same that we are now, and no others afterward — the worshippers of God, indeed, with God forever, clothed over with the proper substance of eternity;
De Anima
The doctrine that souls will be reunited with their own bodies at a future resurrection.
But let our own people too reconsider this, that souls are to receive again at the resurrection the same bodies in which they died.
Nay, in the examples of resurrection, when the power of God, whether through the prophets, or through Christ, or through the apostles, represents souls into bodies, it has been pre-judged, by a solid and handleable and satisfying truth, that this is the form of truth — so that you should judge every incorporeal exhibition of the dead a jugglery.
and then, because the restitution of the flesh too must be awaited, as the partner of its works and of its wages.
De Carne Christi
The doctrine that human flesh will rise again, argued to depend logically on the reality of Christ's own resurrected flesh.
Those who, without controversy, are eager to disturb the faith in the resurrection — a faith already established before these kinsmen of the Sadducees — so as to deny that this hope extends even to the flesh, are rightly distracting Christ's flesh also with their questions, alleging that it was either no flesh at all, or in some way other than human.
And so he was a phantom even after the resurrection, when he offered his hands and feet for the disciples to examine, saying, "Behold that it is I, for a spirit has not bones, as you see me to have" — hands and feet and bones without doubt, which a spirit has not, but flesh.
De Cultu Feminarum
The Christian doctrine that the flesh will rise again, invoked to argue adornment has no place in it
But nothing can rise again save the flesh and the spirit alone and pure.
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
The doctrine of bodily resurrection, denied or reinterpreted by various heretics but affirmed by the apostolic churches.
Part of it Marcion and Apelles and Valentinus, and any others who undermine the resurrection of the flesh, take to themselves.
She knows one God the Lord, the Creator of the universe, and Christ Jesus, of the virgin Mary, the Son of God the Creator, and the resurrection of the flesh;
De Testimonio Animae
The Christian doctrine that the body must be restored to the soul so that judgement, torment, or refreshment can be felt and deserved.
for the enduring of which, your former substance must needs return to you, and the matter and memory of the same man — both because you can feel nothing of evil or of good without the faculty of passible flesh, and because there is no reason for judgement without the presenting of him who deserved the suffering of judgement.