Resurrection of the Body

How to Kill Sin Now

Lots of people struggle with sin. They long to break free but don't know how. They hear the promise of scripture that there's freedom in...

New RBL review of Paul and the Resurrected Body

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New RBL review of Paul and the Resurrected Body

Reviews are starting to come in for Paul and the Resurrected Body: Social Identity and Ethical Practice (SBL Press). In particular, Chris...

Paul and the Cultivation of Multi-Ethnic Churches

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Paul and the Cultivation of Multi-Ethnic Churches

Paul's hope for future bodily resurrection functions to cultivate a shared identity among the recipients that is ethnically inclusive.

Severed from Christ: Falling Away in 1 Corinthians 6

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Severed from Christ: Falling Away in 1 Corinthians 6

Can Christians lose their salvation? Here's why 1 Corinthians 6 indicates that they can.

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No Redemption without Resurrection

God Loses If there is no bodily resurrection, sin wins and God loses. God did not design human beings to die. All through scripture death...

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Heaven Is Not Enough

Dissatisfied with Heaven So what are they waiting for? To answer that question we need to look more closely at their appeal. Their...

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New Post: Resurrection Makes Us Holy (@OfficialSeedbed)

During my recent trip to Wilmore, Kentucky, I had the opportunity to film another episode for Seedbed‘s growing Seven Minute Seminary...

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The Resurrection and Christian Identity (@sowhat_podcast)

The newest episode of the SoWhat? Podcast aired earlier this week. This one is part 2 of a discussion about the resurrection of Jesus in...

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The Resurrection in the Creed, Part 1 @sowhat_podcast

The newest episode of the So What? Podcast went live today. This one is in two parts, and the topic is one of my favorites. That’s right:...

Moltmann on the Immortal Soul vs. Bodily Resurrection

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Moltmann on the Immortal Soul vs. Bodily Resurrection

From The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology: The immortality of the soul is an opinion – the resurrection of the dead is a hope. The...

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Easter Means Mission

Our celebrations of Christ’s resurrection at Easter tend to be narrowly focused. The focus, all too often, drills down onto the...

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Here’s My New Seven Minute Seminary: Resurrection and the Christian Afterlife (@OfficialSeedbe

Here’s the latest installment of Seedbed’s Seven Minute Seminary series in which I discuss several questions related to life after death,...

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Athanasius on the Resurrection

Today is Easter Sunday. Where better to turn than On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius? This is one of those books that I keep coming...

Resurrection is Everything (@OfficialSeedbed)

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Resurrection is Everything (@OfficialSeedbed)

My latest guest post for Seedbed went live this morning. Here’s the intro: “Why celebrate Easter?” That’s an honest question that was put...

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Will God Destroy Our Bodies?

That’s what several standard Bible translations would have you think. The verse in question is 1 Corinthians 6:13a, and it turns out that...

Review: Death and Afterlife: A Theological Introduction

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Review: Death and Afterlife: A Theological Introduction

The first two chapters introduce the reader to the various attitudes toward death and afterlife in the Old Testament and other ancient...

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The Dual Focus of the Resurrection

For Paul, the historicity of the resurrection of Christ and its “bodily” character are crucial. The historicity of the resurrection...

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Imagining Resurrection

These questions and more have abounded for centuries; indeed, such questions are anticipated by the scriptures. In 1 Corinthians 15:35,...

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Catching a Fresh Vision of Faith

Read the rest of this post offering four brief reflections on faith at Seedbed. _____ Image: Janaka Dharmasena/FreeDigitalPhotos.net...

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Easter Hymn

Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Your sweetest notes employ The Paschal victory to hymn In strains of holy joy. How Judah’s Lion burst his...

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Incarnation and Incorruption

“Thus, taking a body like our own, because all our bodies were liable to the corruption of death, He surrendered His body to death in...

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