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6 results for “Intermediate state”
Clear searchBrian E. Daley · Historical theology · 1991
…hinking about death and the world to come really was. Daley traces the development of the intermediate state, apokatastasis, resurrection, judgment, and the principal eschatological expectations without pretending that the early Church spoke with one settled voice on every questi…
View recommendation →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 15:50)? He explains the statement in the next words: "neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Flesh and blood describes humanity in its present mortal and corruptible condition. Paul is not cancelling the bo…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
…tion and death. The same chapter insists that what is sown is raised and transformed. The intermediate state—believers being with Christ between death and resurrection—is blessed (Philippians 1:23). It is not the final chapter. If our complete hope were an immaterial vision enjoy…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…ad. A person successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest was in a catastrophic medical state, but was not irreversibly brain-dead. Clinical death, cardiac arrest and brain death are not interchangeable expressions. If someone returned, we should be cautious about saying that h…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…entrance into a privileged revelation that changes its substance. The distinction can be stated simply: The Gnostic seeks privileged knowledge beyond or beneath the public apostolic gospel. The faithful Christian seeks an increasingly mature understanding of that publicly reveal…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…ructive test. Hezekiah belongs to the discussion. So do Sennacherib, Assyria, Judah’s devastated countryside, Jerusalem’s deliverance and Edom’s hostility. Removing those historical realities would impoverish the passage. But stopping with them would leave much of its language un…
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