EPISODE · Sep 7, 2021 · 29 MIN
What is Resurrection? with Lucas Mix
from The ChurchNext Podcast · host Lucas Mix, Carrie Graves
Lucas Mix is an Episcopal priest, author, and martial artist. He is also a researcher at the intersection of biology, philosophy, and theology, focusing on theories of life. In the second half of 2021, he is serving as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation researching the relationship between science and science fiction.If you’re interested in reading more about resurrection, look into The Resurrection of the Son of God (2012) and Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Ministry of the Church (2008), both by N.T. Wright.If you are interested in learning more about Lucas' work, visit his blog at https://dacalu.wordpress.com/. In addition, check out Lucas’ books, such as Life Concepts From Aristotle to Darwin: On Vegetable Souls (2018) and Thinking Fair: Rules for Reason in Science and Religion (2016).If you’re interested in learning more about resurrection, check out our ChurchNext courses Don't Fear Death! with Tom Krell; What's Heaven Like? with John Price; Making Sense of the Cross with David Lose, Parts One, Two, and Three; and Exploring Hell with Seth Carey.
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The physical side of the resurrection is not often spoken of in mainline Protestant churches. That is, we get it in theory but choose not to think about that side of the resurrection too much. Influenced by Platonism and by the overall notion that our sinful bodies tend to get us into trouble, many Christians think of the body as something problematic that we leave behind in death. And, we wonder, how would a physical resurrection even work, anyway? Our bodies stay here. We are dust and to dust we do return. It is perhaps not surprising that as a culture, many of us approach the resurrection as a purely spiritual event, even knowing that this approach doesn’t wholly encompass Christian theology on resurrection. If we pattern our hope for resurrection on Jesus', then we can assume that (1) we will rise to new life after death; that (2) our risen life will differ from our life on earth today; and that (3) our resurrection will be physical in nature as well as spiritual. In today’s podcast, the Rev. Lucas Mix discusses the nature of resurrected life, emphasizing its physicality and what that physicality means for us both in the afterlife and in our lives today. He discusses what scripture tells us about the afterlife and how Greek and Jewish ideas about the afterlife have affected the way we understand it.
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