Sections

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Chapter 1. The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body Brought to Light by the Gospel. The Faintest Glimpses of Something Like It Occasionally Met...
• 3 Chapter 2. The Jewish Sadducees a Link Between the Pagan Philosophers and the Heretics on This Doctrine. Its Fundamental Importance Asserted. The S...
• 4 Chapter 3. Some Truths Held Even by the Heathen. They Were, However, More Often Wrong Both in Religious Opinions and in Moral Practice. The Heathen...
• 5 Chapter 4. Heathens and Heretics Alike in Their Vilification of the Flesh and Its Functions, the Ordinary Cavils Against the Final Restitution of S...
• 6 Chapter 5. Some Considerations in Reply Eulogistic of the Flesh. It Was Created by God. The Body of Man Was, in Fact, Previous to His Soul.
• 7 Chapter 6. Not the Lowliness of the Material, But the Dignity and Skill of the Maker, Must Be Remembered, in Gauging the Excellence of the Flesh. C...
• 8 Chapter 7. The Earthy Material of Which Flesh is Created Wonderfully Improved by God's Manipulation. By the Addition of the Soul in Man's Constitut...
• 9 Chapter 8. Christianity, by Its Provision for the Flesh, Has Put on It the Greatest Honour. The Privileges of Our Religion in Closest Connection wi...
• 10 Chapter 9. God's Love for the Flesh of Man, as Developed in the Grace of Christ Towards It. The Flesh the Best Means of Displaying the Bounty and P...
• 11 Chapter 10. Holy Scripture Magnifies the Flesh, as to Its Nature and Its Prospects.
• 12 Chapter 11. The Power of God Fully Competent to Effect the Resurrection of the Flesh.
• 13 Chapter 12. Some Analogies in Nature Which Corroborate the Resurrection of the Flesh.
• 14 Chapter 13. From Our Author's View of a Verse in the Ninety-Second Psalm, the Phœnix is Made a Symbol of the Resurrection of Our Bodies.
• 15 Chapter 14. A Sufficient Cause for the Resurrection of the Flesh Occurs in the Future Judgment of Man. It Will Take Cognisance of the Works of the ...
• 16 Chapter 15. As the Flesh is a Partaker with the Soul in All Human Conduct, So Will It Be in the Recompense of Eternity.
• 17 Chapter 16. The Heretics Called the Flesh The Vessel of the Soul, In Order to Destroy the Responsibility of the Body. Their Cavil Turns Upon Themse...
• 18 Chapter 17. The Flesh Will Be Associated with the Soul in Enduring the Penal Sentences of the Final Judgment.
• 19 Chapter 18. Scripture Phrases and Passages Clearly Assert The Resurrection of the Dead. The Force of This Very Phrase Explained as Indicating the P...
• 20 Chapter 19. The Sophistical Sense Put by Heretics on the Phrase Resurrection of the Dead, As If It Meant the Moral Change of a New Life.
• 21 Chapter 20. Figurative Senses Have Their Foundation in Literal Fact. Besides, the Allegorical Style is by No Means the Only One Found in the Prophe...
• 22 Chapter 21. No Mere Metaphor in the Phrase Resurrection of the Dead. In Proportion to the Importance of Eternal Truths, is the Clearness of Their S...
• 23 Chapter 22. The Scriptures Forbid Our Supposing Either that the Resurrection is Already Past, or that It Takes Place Immediately at Death. Our Hope...
• 24 Chapter 23. Sundry Passages of St. Paul, Which Speak of a Spiritual Resurrection, Compatible with the Future Resurrection of the Body, Which is Eve...
• 25 Chapter 24. Other Passages Quoted from St. Paul, Which Categorically Assert the Resurrection of the Flesh at the Final Judgment.
• 26 Chapter 25. St. John, in the Apocalypse, Equally Explicit in Asserting the Same Great Doctrine.
• 27 Chapter 26. Even the Metaphorical Descriptions of This Subject in the Scriptures Point to the Bodily Resurrection, the Only Sense Which Secures The...
• 28 Chapter 27. Certain Metaphorical Terms Explained of the Resurrection of the Flesh.
• 29 Chapter 28. Prophetic Things and Actions, as Well as Words, Attest This Great Doctrine.
• 30 Chapter 29. Ezekiel's Vision of the Dry Bones Quoted.
• 31 Chapter 30. This Vision Interpreted by Tertullian of the Resurrection of the Bodies of the Dead. A Chronological Error of Our Author, Who Supposes ...
• 32 Chapter 31. Other Passages Out of the Prophets Applied to the Resurrection of the Flesh.
• 33 Chapter 32. Even Unburied Bodies Will Be Raised Again. Whatever Befalls Them God Will Restore Them Again. Jonah's Case Quoted in Illustration of Go...
• 34 Chapter 33. So Much for the Prophetic Scriptures. In the Gospels, Christ's Parables, as Explained by Himself, Have a Clear Reference to the Resurre...
• 35 Chapter 34. Christ Plainly Testifies to the Resurrection of the Entire Man. Not in His Soul Only, Without the Body.
• 36 Chapter 35. Explanation of What is Meant by the Body, Which is to Be Raised Again. Not the Corporeality of the Soul.
• 37 Chapter 36. Christ's Refutation of the Sadducees, and Affirmation of Catholic Doctrine.
• 38 Chapter 37. Christ's Assertion About the Unprofitableness of the Flesh Explained Consistently with Our Doctrine.
• 39 Chapter 38. Christ, by Raising the Dead, Attested in a Practical Way the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Flesh.
• 40 Chapter 39. Additional Evidence Afforded to Us in the Acts of the Apostles.
• 41 Chapter 40. Sundry Passages of St. Paul Which Attest Our Doctrine Rescued from the Perversions of Heresy.
• 42 Chapter 41. The Dissolution of Our Tabernacle Consistent with the Resurrection of Our Bodies.
• 43 Chapter 42. Death Changes, Without Destroying, Our Mortal Bodies. Remains of the Giants.
• 44 Chapter 43. No Disparagement of Our Doctrine in St. Paul's Phrase, Which Calls Our Residence in the Flesh Absence from the Lord.
• 45 Chapter 44. Sundry Other Passages of St. Paul Explained in a Sentence Confirmatory of Our Doctrine.
• 46 Chapter 45. The Old Man and the New Man of St. Paul Explained.
• 47 Chapter 46. It is the Works of the Flesh, Not the Substance of the Flesh, Which St. Paul Always Condemns.
• 48 Chapter 47. St. Paul, All Through, Promises Eternal Life to the Body.
• 49 Chapter 48. Sundry Passages in the Great Chapter of the Resurrection of the Dead Explained in Defence of Our Doctrine.
• 50 Chapter 49. The Same Subject Continued. What Does the Apostle Exclude from the Dead? Certainly Not the Substance of the Flesh.
• 51 Chapter 50. In What Sense Flesh and Blood are Excluded from the Kingdom of God.
• 52 Chapter 51. The Session of Jesus in His Incarnate Nature at the Right Hand of God a Guarantee of the Resurrection of Our Flesh.
• 53 Chapter 52. From St. Paul's Analogy of the Seed We Learn that the Body Which Died Will Rise Again, Garnished with the Appliances of Eternal Life.
• 54 Chapter 53. Not the Soul, But the Natural Body Which Died, is that Which is to Rise Again. The Resurrection of Lazarus Commented on. Christ's Resur...
• 55 Chapter 54. Death Swallowed Up of Life. Meaning of This Phrase in Relation to the Resurrection of the Body.
• 56 Chapter 55. The Change of a Thing's Condition is Not the Destruction of Its Substance. The Application of This Principle to Our Subject.
• 57 Chapter 56. The Procedure of the Last Judgment, and Its Awards, Only Possible on the Identity of the Risen Body with Our Present Flesh.
• 58 Chapter 57. Our Bodies, However Mutilated Before or After Death, Shall Recover Their Perfect Integrity in the Resurrection. Illustration of the Enf...
• 59 Chapter 58. From This Perfection of Our Restored Bodies Will Flow the Consciousness of Undisturbed Joy and Peace.
• 60 Chapter 59. Our Flesh in the Resurrection Capable, Without Losing Its Essential Identity, of Bearing the Changed Conditions of Eternal Life, or of ...
• 61 Chapter 60. All the Characteristics of Our Bodies — Sex, Various Limbs, Etc.— Will Be Retained, Whatever Change of Functions These May Have, of Whi...
• 62 Chapter 61. The Details of Our Bodily Sex, and of the Functions of Our Various Members. Apology for the Necessity Which Heresy Imposes of Hunting U...
• 63 Chapter 62. Our Destined Likeness to the Angels in the Glorious Life of the Resurrection.
• 64 Chapter 63. Conclusion. The Resurrection of the Flesh in Its Absolute Identity and Perfection. Belief of This Had Become Weak. Hopes for Its Refres...