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In the fourth century, the Christian church emerged from the catacombs as a spiritual and intellectual force, and many believers struggled to explain their faith within prevailing philosophical systems. Among them was St. Gregory, bishop of Nyssa, who examined the doctrine of the bodily resurrection. Following Plato’s literary example, St. Gregory wrote a dramatic dialogue regarding the soul and...

you to touch it again a second time, no matter how quickly you do this, but the flame is always new and fresh, always new-born and never remaining in the same condition. Something like this happens also in regard to the nature of our bodies. The inflowing and outflowing of our nature which always proceed and move with the motion of change stop only when we cease from life. As long as our nature is alive, it has no stillness. Either the body is being filled or it is emptying itself, or actually it
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