According to Archbishop William Temple, the Christian faith is the most materialistic religion in the world because it made matter sacramental. He did have a point. God made human bodies at creation, He took on a body at the incarnation, He suffered with one at the crucifixion, and He raised it at the resurrection. Human bodies are not unimportant to God. They matter so much to Him that He raises them. In the Apostles Creed we joyfully confess, “I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.” Disembodied souls are not part of the Christian hope; new, spiritual, perfect, but nevertheless real bodies are (Matthew 22:33-43; Luke 24:39; John 20:19-29; 1 Corinthians 15).
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