Interpretation and reception
On the Resurrection (surviving selections)
Methodius
Surviving selections from Methodius defend bodily resurrection using analogies of rebuilding and recasting. They challenge the idea that the body is a prison to be permanently discarded.
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Edition and location
Translated by William R. Clark. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 6. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Revised for New Advent by Kevin Knight.
Part I, sections II–VI