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The most common belief in a future life among contemporary Christianity is that after death we will be given new and glorious bodies in heaven. These ‘spiritual bodies’ will not be the same bodies as those we now inhabit, nor will they be glorified and transformed versions of these bodies. Rather they will be quite different bodies, and the only bond of unity between our present and future bodies is that they will be ‘owned’ successively by the same personality.
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Badham, P. (1976). The Resurrection of the Body in Modern Thought. In: Christian Beliefs About Life After Death. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03013-2_5
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