The Rev. Marcia King is a colleague of mine on the staff of St. George’s Church, Nashville, and her sermon is found on the website of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee in the most recent newsletter, pages 4-5.
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Let's be clear: the stories are not about someone coming back into the present mode of life. They are about someone going on into a new sort of existence, still emphatically bodily, if anything, more so. When St Paul speaks of a “spiritual” resurrection body, he doesn't mean “non-material”, like a ghost. “Spiritual” is the sort of Greek word that tells you, not what something is made of, but what is animating it. The risen Jesus had a physical body animated by God's life-giving Spirit. Yes, says St Paul, that same Spirit is at work in us, and will have the same effect - and in the whole world.
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I attach below an excellent articled adapted from a lecture given by William Edgar at Gordon College in Wenham, MA this February. The article appears on the website of the Trinity Forum and addresses an appropriate church disposition toward contemporary culture. I particularly appreciate Edgar’s pointing to St. Paul’s experience in Athens (Acts 17) as a model for Christian engagement with culture, as well as the example there of the two perennial kinds idolatry ever surrounding us. - RLS
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