tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post2569146501112317537..comments2024-03-28T09:36:30.991+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Assumpta est Maria in cælum!David Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-77672495710251245192022-08-16T01:16:37.417+01:002022-08-16T01:16:37.417+01:00For all the talk of oxymoronic "spiritual bod...For all the talk of oxymoronic "spiritual bodies", the people in the pews would be shocked to learn that many of their most revered leaders have held, and openly if obscurely continue to hold, the original Protestant position that the souls of the dead were unconscious until the General Resurrection, effectively as dead as their bodies. <br /><br />That can at least claim <i>some</i> relationship to Scripture. But the idea of Christianity as baldly "based on the Bible" is purely sixteenth century, and it has been minoritarian and contentious from the day that it was first proposed. David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-73780542066148174052022-08-16T00:35:39.573+01:002022-08-16T00:35:39.573+01:00"The original Protestant view that until the ..."The original Protestant view that until the General Resurrection, souls were effectively as dead as their bodies"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com