Resurrection of the body

Caroline Walker Bynam, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (New York Columbia University Press, 1995), 58. 

Mircea Eliade, Forgtons et Alchimistes (Paris Editions Elammarion, 1977). Walker Bynam, Resurrection of the Body (1995), 290 ff. 

Another fourteenth century text, the Aurora Consurgens, similarly provides a lengthy eschatological account in the course of which the author refers to Paul s doctrine of the resurrection of the body. The Sixth Parable explains in detail the analogy between the philosopher s stone and the Second Adam who is Christ in his Eucharistic form. 

Walker Bynam, Resurrection of the Body (1995), 118-19. Walker Bynam, Resurrection of the Body (1995), 40-42. Walker Bynam, Resurrection of the Body (1995), 30—32. Walker Bynam, Resurrection of the Body (1995), 34-35. Walker Bynam, Resurrection of the Body (1995), 96-99. De Jong, Atalanta Fugiens (1969), 239-42. 

Christ s victory over death was decisive. On their own, his disciples could never conquer death, the consequence of their own sinful flesh. Since flesh was the cause of death, then natural carnality had to be denied, as in Paul s unequivocal insistence on asceticism (I Corinthians 7 29, 31). Why, in that case, should flesh be allowed into heaven at all The element of continuity between the two human bodies, the natural one and its resurrected version, was an insoluble mystery for Paul. In an attempt to address this problem, he devised an analogy with the dying seed for the process of the death and resurrection of the body, rising not as carnal flesh, but as a spiritual body (I Corinthians 15 21-54). In his view, at the resurrection, the body will not be the same one that had died, for the risen body will be a new creation, just as the grown plant is not the same entity as the sown seed. 

Fludd, Tractatus Theologo-Philosophicus (Oppenheim J. T. de Bry, 1617), 89—126 (resurrection of the body). 

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin s impact was so sensational because of the incredible effect it had on diabetic patients. Those who watched the first starved, sometimes comatose, diabetics receive insulin and return to life saw one of the genuine miracles of modem medicine. They were present at the closest approach to the resurrection of the body that our secular society can achieve, and at the discovery of what has become the elixir of life for millions of human beings around the world. 

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