“Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting contempt.” – Daniel 12:2 (BSB)
“Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet… the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” – 1 Corinthians 15:51–52 (BSB)
“But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body…” – Philippians 3:20–21 (BSB)
“And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.” – Romans 8:11 (BSB)
The resurrection will be universal: both the redeemed and the unredeemed will be raised. The righteous will receive glorified bodies, no longer subject to sin, sickness, or death, while the unrighteous will be raised to face final judgment. Fr. Isaac Rehberg (ACNA, All Saints San Antonio, TX) explains, “God’s justice and mercy are both revealed in the resurrection—it is the restoration of our nature and the beginning of eternal destiny.” (The Mystery of the Rising Body, 2021)
The resurrection body is not merely resuscitated flesh—it is a transformed, imperishable body, patterned after the risen Christ. Fr. Caleb Evans (Anglican Orthodox Church, St. Stephen’s Mission, GA) teaches, “We will not float as spirits forever. God made us body and soul—and He will raise us in both. The grave is not our end; it is the seedbed of glory.” (Raised in Glory, 2020)
This doctrine also affirms the goodness of creation and the promise that God will make all things new. Fr. Thomas Buchan (Anglican Union, St. Mark’s Anglican Church, VA) notes, “God does not discard what He made—He redeems it. Our resurrection is a sign that the whole cosmos will be renewed in Christ.” (The Resurrection and the New Creation, 2021)
Canon George Grant (ACNA, Parish Presbyterian Church, TN) adds, “The resurrection of the body reminds us that Christianity is earthy, real, and eternal. It is not escape—it is redemption. We await a real kingdom, in real bodies, worshipping the real Christ forever.” (Recovering Anglican Piety, 2019)
“The resurrection is the hope of the faithful. Without it, our faith is empty. But with it, we rejoice, knowing our bodies shall be made new.” – John Chrysostom, Homily on 1 Corinthians 15, c. 390 AD
“God, who made man from the dust, shall raise him from the dust. He who breathed life once shall breathe again.” – Basil the Great, On the Resurrection of the Dead, c. 370 AD
“Our flesh shall rise, not as it was, but as it was meant to be—glorious, incorruptible, and eternal.” – Cyprian of Carthage, Treatise on the Resurrection, c. 250 AD
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