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Resurrection of the Body

Not souls drifting free, but bodies raised — death itself undone at the end of the age

The Resurrection of the Body is the belief in the future bodily raising of the dead at the end of the age. Paul defends it at length in 1 Corinthians 15, the early creeds confess it, and Athenagoras devoted a treatise, On the Resurrection, to its defense. Christians affirm that salvation embraces the whole person, body and soul, not merely a disembodied immortality of the soul.

How it traveled

  1. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
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  2. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
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  3. Revelation
    Patmos · 100
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  4. John
    Ephesus · 100
    explains
  5. On the Resurrection, Fragments
    Rome · 165
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  6. The Resurrection of the Dead
    Alexandria · 190
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  7. Against Heresies: Book V
    Lyons · 202
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  8. On the Resurrection of the Flesh.
    — · 220
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  9. A Treatise on the Soul.
    — · 220
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  10. The Instructions of Commodianus.
    — · 220
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  11. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
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  12. Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations
    Mosul · 345
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  13. Ephraim Syrus: The Nisibene Hymns
    Edessa · 373
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  14. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  15. On the Soul and the Resurrection
    Nyssa · 395
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  16. On the Making of Man
    Nyssa · 395
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  17. On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus
    Milan · 397
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  18. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  19. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  20. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  21. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  22. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  23. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  24. A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed
    Aquileia · 411
    explains
  25. The Apology of Rufinus. Addressed to Apronianus, in Reply to Jerome's Letter to Pammachius
    Aquileia · 411
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  26. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
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  27. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  28. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  29. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  30. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  31. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  32. A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  33. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  34. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
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  35. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  36. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
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  37. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  38. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  39. Heaven
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. The Final Judgment
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains

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