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  • 10 - The Future Event of the Fleshly Resurrection

  • from IV - The Resurrection of Human Flesh
  • Augustine M. Reisenauer, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Augustine's Theology of the Resurrection
    Published online:
    21 April 2023
    Print publication:
    30 March 2023, pp 177-199

  • Summary

    Chapter 10 studies Augustine’s arguments for and descriptions of the future resurrection of all human flesh. Augustine defends the credibility and intelligibility of the fleshly resurrection not only against those pagans who doubt or deny human immorality and eschatology of any kind, but also against those who assume or assert some alternative version of human immorality and eschatology, especially such Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophers as Plato and Porphyry. Whereas their pride prevents these opponents from accepting the bodily resurrection, Augustine insists upon the Christlike humility that opens both the mind to accept it and the flesh to experience it truly and happily. Augustine’s Catholic faith in the resurrection prompts him to revise the cosmological and anthropological paradigms of classical antiquity. Furthermore, he identifies the recipients of the future resurrection as both the entirety of our human race and the entirety of our human flesh, even down to its smallest particles.