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This comprehensive study of Paul’s language of “the body” knits together all of his great themes: the body of sin and death, in which man has fallen; the body of Christ on the cross, through which we are saved; Christ’s body, the Church; and the resurrection of the body. Nearly all of the main tenets of the Christian faith are represented here—the doctrines of man, sin, the incarnation and...

and each man’s inalienable responsibility to Him (1 Cor. 3:13–15; 2 Cor. 5:10; Rom. 14:12). The resurrection body signifies, rather, the solidarity of the recreated universe in Christ. It is none other than the Body of Christ in which we have a share.1 That is why it cannot be ‘put on’ in its completeness till He is all in all. Nowhere in the New Testament has the resurrection of the body anything specifically to do with the moment of death. The key ‘moments’ for this are baptism and the Parousia.
Pages 79–80