A resurrection is the reunion of a soul with its body. It’s the undoing of death, which splits them in two. This is why death cannot be measured in strictly material terms. For secular man, death is the cessation of motion, the physical processes of the human body coming to a standstill. But when Christians confess, in the creed of Nicaea, “the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come,” we draw lines between ourselves and our culture with respect to the definition of the human person. That a resurrection is possible means that the soul lives on after death, in some mysterious way, anticipating its reunion with its body, transformed and made whole, whether for the resurrection of life or the resurrection of condemnation (John 5:29).
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