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resurrection
/ˌɹɛzɚˈɛkʃən/
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What does resurrection mean?
noun
- The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.
- The act of being raised from the dead into immortal life (as distinguished from a resuscitation into ordinary mortal life).
- The general resurrection.
More meanings (4)
noun
- (figuratively) A miraculous comeback or revival (e.g., of a TV series); recovery from a dire predicament.
- (archaic) The act of bodysnatching (illicitly exhuming a cadaver).
proper noun
- The resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- The 75th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɹɛzɚˈɛkʃən/
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In the Khordah Avesta we have the following concerning the doctrine of the resurrection and that of future rewards and punishments.
And there appeared first our Lord to his disciples after his resurrection, the gates enclosed, and said to them, Pax vobis!
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But I show unto you one thing which I have inquired diligently of God that I might know—that is concerning the resurrection.
Christian thought struggles towards it, with the millstones of Syrian theology and an outrageous mythology of incarnation and resurrection about its neck.
Throughout the Middle Ages it was believed that there exists in man a bone imponderable, incorruptible, incombustible--the necessary nucleus of the resurrection body.