“Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should better be thought of as one who passed through all the slime and mire of a fallen and sinful creation in order to redeem it. His own body is to be remembered for the marks it bears-even in resurrection-of the scars of his sacrificial death. For the Christian, a theory of beauty might better begin at this point.” ShouldBodyMightChristianOrderChristBeautyCreationTheoryBearsUltimateMarkScriptureRememberedFallenScarResurrectionSlimeExternal Beauty Author:John Walford
“Blessed the man that hath visited `Akká, and blessed he that hath visited the visitor of `Akká. Blessed the one that hath drunk from the Spring of the Cow and washed in its waters, for the black-eyed damsels quaff the camphor in Paradise, which hath come from the Spring of the Cow, and from the Spring of Salvan (Siloam), and the Well of Zamzam. Well is it with him that hath drunk from these springs, and washed in their waters, for God hath forbidden the fire of hell to touch him and his body on the Day of Resurrection.” MenWellsBodyBlackWaterHellFireHe ManSpringBlessedDrunkParadiseCowsResurrectionForbiddenVisitors Author:Bahá'u'lláh
“The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.” DoeSoulFactsBodyForceFireDivineProveFollowingProofEndlessSurvivorResurrectionProve ItPhysical BodyNear DeathNear Death Experience Author:Caroline Myss
“It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for the final reassertion -resurrection - the establishment of the entity. But now I've come up tot the outside of my casements.” ThinkingNeedsUseBodyFoundFinalsCome UpIsolationEstablishmentResurrectionEntityPreparingLeafsImperativesEmbryosTotsBody Change Author:Marsden Hartley
“Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!” ThinkingSometimesBodyMistakeConstructionAfterlifeResurrection Author:Evelyn Underhill
“Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.” BodyReligionLatterConceptionResurrectionScholarTestamentNew TestamentClashImpliedCorinthiansEmbellishment Author:Robert M. Price