“It now becomes clear that the real heart of faith in the resurrection
does not consist at all in the idea of the restoration of bodies, to
which we have reduced it in our thinking; such is the case even though
this is the pictorial image used throughout the Bible.”
“The
foregoing reflections may have clarified to some extent what is
involved in the biblical pronouncements about the resurrection: their
essential content is not the conception of a restoration of bodies to
souls after a long interval…”
“To recapitulate, Paul teaches, not the resurrection of physical bodies, but the resurrection of persons…”
Benedict XVI, Introduction to Christianity, 2004, pp. 349, 353, 357-358
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