The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-03-25
SOME NEW HOOKg.
The scr,pturc Doctrine Of the Re.urreet,on

has Just published u little volume. entitled The
Resurr ection ofthe Bodv: Does he Bibie Tedch M
in which he answers the question In the negative,
and contends for u resurrection in n form COM
posed NJ finer substances than flesh and blood.
though precisely what these Substances may bc
he fails 10 say. There is nothing now in the
book. most of it's argum 'nts being derived from
old undw Unknown sources hut it IL clcnrlyand
vigorously written. and that it, author should
have hcon moved ~ write II nj all liz "a proof of
tho perennial interest Of its subject
Il cannot h, denied that. whsle Christians gcn-
era. believe in some kin of a continuance Of
human existence nftcrdoath ihcrc ia gr 'at diver
slty OF opinion among them in regard to It's mt
turc and characteristics. The memo, ihr print
tive church were not pcrplr about the matter
IA they were not about many others which arc
actively debated among us. They believed
that at the last day the bodies of tic dead
would b, raised to life. ana that the faithful
would once moro. in n'sh and blood inhabit
their former abol's. The most an lent vcr-
sions of the Apostles creed tea ii explicitly tho
resurrection Of tn n 'sh. and the earliest Chris
tian apooZst Justin Martyr. writing only a
hunircl years AFT ~ the death Of Christ. do
fcnls the 10 trinr by asking whether It be any
moro dili nut for God TO create body anew
from it, dust than for him to create il the first
con 'ci's that all th' sn,'crdns fathers Of the
church m linttn the same Wow. T'stullian
d. 'lar,s "rhe Il 'sh shall rise again. wholly ia
every man, in its own identity. in its absolute
int,grty.' Ir nous agr'cs with him. and 50
do Jerome and Augustine. Objections founl-
cd upon 81 ii con-dernt lons as that the same
matter may have served 10 compose many
bottles in succession. and that tho resurrection
Of the identical body laid in the grave would
involve the reproduction of all the defects amt
diseases Of that BODY. were brushed aside by an
app nj to COILS Omnipoirnc'. II was enough
that it WIS his VIII To rails, thu bodies of the
dnad. AMI It was not for man 10 say that it was
impossible.
II is rnm1rkahln with what confidence DR..
Ni-b't ov'rrid ~ this primitive interpretation
OF Scripture. anl declares il to b, in orrrri.
H. allows no weight whatever to the Obvious
fat that m N living 81 much nearer than he
docs to the days when the Now Testament wis
written. and with whom its very language was
still in colloq1inl use. would be- moro likely than
he To- perceive il true IN 'anlng H. lays gront
stress upon the famous passage in Paul's
epistlc TO the Corinthians Il Cor. Nv. $3.50.
which. h. thinks. ass 'r- tho rr-urrc ,tion body
not To b, II Il 81 AMI blood. Bat h. fails to per-
cc Va that all that Paul is contendng for Is n
finer and more glorious form Of n,sh and
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