What Will the Resurrected Body Be Like?

In this episode Chad Rhodes and Charlotte Elia discuss the resurrection of the body. What could it be like? Is it really physical or purely spiritual? What does it mean to have a perfected body? Will we still look like us? Will we recognize others? Listen as your hosts first look at some relevant Old Testament texts, then examine what the biblical witness tells us about Jesus’ resurrected body, and finally chat about what’s at stake in our body affirming, creation affirming faith before devolving into a debate about yellow squash and zucchini.

Charlotte: This is a very body positive, body affirming, matter affirming faith, because it’s also not just saying a body or some matter is good. It’s saying your body and your matter is good, and even Christ’s wounded body is good. That’s so fascinating to me, that we don’t see him resurrected as healed from the crucifixion but still carrying those wounds as identifying markers, and that’s what Thomas wants to see because that’s the guy he knows, but that he’s literally bearing on his body the impression of his greatest act of love for us.

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