Monday, August 12, 2024

Adela Yarbro Collins on Tertullian's Believe that "even God is a body, being at the same time a spirit"

  

Tertullian agreed with the Stoics that everything that exists is a body. Even God is a body, being at the same time a spirit. From a philosophical point of view, he would have no objection to Paul’s idea of a “spiritual body,” that is, a body made up of the airy or fiery material the Stoics called pneuma. That idea, however, was not compatible with his understanding of resurrection, namely, that the identical material body wears blessedness or damnation like a garment. (Tertullian, Res. 41-43, citing 2 Cor 5:1-3 and 1 Cor 15:51-53). (Adela Yarbro Collins, Paul Transformed: Reception of the Person and Letters of Paul in Antiquity [The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022], 42)

 

 


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