(The Damsel in theological distress is obstinate)
"Seeing as the Saviour in the whole Gospel shows that there is salvation for the flesh, why do we any longer endure those unbelieving and dangerous arguments, and fail to see that we are retrograding when we listen to such an argument as this: that the soul is immortal, but the body mortal, and incapable of being revived? For this we used to hear from Pythagoras and Plato, even before we learned the truth. If then the Saviour said this, and proclaimed salvation to the soul alone, what new thing, beyond what we heard from Pythagoras and Plato and all their band, did He bring us? But now He has come proclaiming the glad tidings of a new and strange hope to men", writes Justin Martyr.
And the Doctor of the Church who pinned down, philosophically, the nature of time adds: "No doctrine of the Christian Faith* is so vehemently and so obstinately opposed as the doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh". Tell me about it, St Augustine...
*apart that of the Continuation of the Supply of Good Wine, with the promotion of which I'm hoping to make my modest name go up in philosophical history (alternatively, it can turn out to be The Sex in Heaven Doctrine [proposed]).
