Eschatology & Afterlife
General Resurrection
At the Second Coming, all the dead will be raised bodily, not merely spiritually. The resurrection body will be transformed and incorruptible (1 Corinthians 15). The whole person, body and soul, participates in either eternal communion with God (paradise) or separation from God (hell). This is why Orthodoxy insists on burial rather than cremation.
Sources
- 1 Corinthians 15 the Greek New Testament
- St. John of Damascus, Exact Exposition IV.27 NPNF
- St. Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man NPNF
Connections
- Eschatology (The Last Things)
- Particular Judgment & Toll Houses
- Pascha (Easter)
- St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-395)
- St. John of Damascus (c. 676-749)
- St. Lazarus of the Four Days
- St. Macrina the Younger
- St. Mary Magdalene
- St. Thomas the Apostle
- The Descent into Hades
- The Panikhida (Service for the Departed)
- The Saturdays of the Souls
- The Second Coming of Christ