The belief in a literal resurrection of the dead was held by the Jews for fifteen centuries before Christ and is explicitly taught in such Old Testament passages as Job 19:26 and Isaiah 26:19. The Apostles of Christ did not depart from the historical doctrine, committing it to writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in Romans 8:11-23, 1 Corinthians 15:54, and elsewhere in the New Testament. Christ Himself vindicated the true doctrine by rising again in His corporeal body and thus showing Himself alive to five hundred witnesses before ascending to Heaven. This volume is a monumental defense of the traditional hope of the resurrection as cherished by the Church for nearly 2,000 years and presents conclusive scriptural and philosophical arguments against the heretical views of the early Gnostics, the Swedenborgians and Jehovah's Witnesses of the Nineteenth Century, and the so-called "full preterists" of our own day.
