Brian 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…
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…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…
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…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…
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