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15 That is a notion that is very compatible with a reincarnational understanding of human destiny, which is not to say, of course, that Paul taught reincarnationism of the upanishadic or Platonic type. It may be, nevertheless, that we should not exclude that hypothesis. As we shall see later, several of the Christian Fathers note the similarity between resurrection and transmigration. Resurrection is certainly a kind of reincarnation, however much we care to outlaw Platonic forms of the latter and insist that resurrection is a form of reincarnation that is by no means to be classed with other kinds.
15 That is a notion that is very compatible with a reincarnational understanding of human destiny, which is not to say, of course, that Paul taught reincarnationism of the upanishadic or Platonic type. It may be, nevertheless, that we should not exclude that hypothesis. As we shall see later, several of the Christian Fathers note the similarity between resurrection and transmigration. Resurrection is certainly a kind of reincarnation, however much we care to outlaw Platonic forms of the latter and insist that resurrection is a form of reincarnation that is by no means to be classed with other kinds.
Generally speaking,resurrection was an idea that struck the Greek mind as absurd. Augustine remarks that the Greeks, while they were open to the concept of the immortality of the soul, accounted that of resurrection totally impossible. 13 They were Ways of Understanding Concept 39 thinking of it as an ascent of the flesh-and-bones body up to heaven, which not unnaturally tpey accounted absurd. In fact, however, the early Christian writers, including Paul himself, by no means clearly specify the meaning of the resurrection for which we are to hope.