Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Aha! And you thought it was impossible to over-emphasise the bodily nature of the resurrection

From Herman Bavinck on the result of a belief called totalitas materiae or 'the resurrection of the totality of matter'.

"... it leads to a variety of subtle and curious inquiries that are of no value for the doctrine of the resurrection. The question that is then pursued is whether the hair and the nails, the blood and the gall, the semen and the urine, the intestines and the genitals will all rise again and be composed of the same–in number and kind–atoms of which they were composed in this life."

No.

And eww.

Is this proof that everything can just as easily be over-emphasised as under-emphasised? My assessment of higher level theology is that the most comfortable location to engage in it is sitting on the fence.

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