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Palgrave Macmillan
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English

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Subjects
Resurrection, Religion, Church history, Leib-Seele-Problem, Unsterblichkeitsglaube, 11.51 early Christianity, Auferstehungsglaube, Frühchristentum, Greece, religion
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Greece

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Dilemmas of the flesh
Where do we stand?
Explanations so far
Judaism, Greek philosophy, and that third factor
The attraction of immortal flesh
The general attraction of the flesh
Mortal souls, annihilated bodies
The heroes, the fortunate dead
The immortal nature of the gods
The possibility of immortal flesh
Resuscitation to a normal life
Dismemberment and rejuvenation
Resurrection and physical immortality
Becoming immortal by merely touching death
Achieving immortality through death
The gods who were not resurrected
A question of space
Swept away to immortality
When the earth opens up
Immortal misery
A body vanishes
What did the Christians say?
New beliefs, old beliefs
When the soul became immortal (according to some)
Confusion and contradictions
The state of the afterlife at the dawn of Christianity
Jewish beliefs on the afterlife
The challenge of immortal flesh
The fleshless resurrection body of Paul
The Corinthian riddle
The Greek context of Corinth
Ridicule at the Aareopagus
The requirement of physical continuity
The success of immortal flesh
The vanished resurrection body of Mark
The tangible resurrection body of Matthew
Luke's resurrection body of flesh and bones
The pierced resurrection body of John
More emphasis on the flesh
The ever-present alternative of a fleshless resurrection
How the struggle between philosophers and multitude continued within Christianity
The promise of the flesh and the dilemma of annihilation
The divine recreation of the flesh
Answers to the challenge of the flesh
Immortal flesh and why the Greeks left Zeus.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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236/.809
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BL505 .E53 2009, BL48L1-991BR1-BR1725

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