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Manifestly, the body that dies is utterly dissipated over time and so cannot be said in any meaningful way to itself be transformed into the resurrection body. The continuity which exists between the mortal body and the resurrection body is FORMAL. The organisation and patterning of the latter has some kind of isomorphic correspondence with the former. I am sure that some kind of "matter" will be involved: for "body" involves the idea of "being constituted from parts" and "matter" is all about "part-icularity". However, what kind of "matter" that is a different matter ;-) The argument over angels dancing on pin-heads was all about this. We Platonists tend to the view that angels have "material bodies" [but made of "subtle matter"] and so cannot multiply occupy the same region of space-time whereas Aristotelians believe that angels are "purely spiritual" and have no necessary geometric extension and so can multiply occupy a single point in space-time.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:04:19 +0000

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