In a world prone to deny or distort the hope of bodily resurrection, John Calvin anchors us firmly in Scripture’s clear teaching. In Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 3, Chapter 25 (Sections 7–8), he dismantles errors that imagine new bodies or deny the resurrection of the flesh, affirming instead that the very bodies we now possess—temples of the Holy Spirit and members of Christ—will be raised, transformed from corruptible to incorruptible. Calvin points to Christ’s own resurrection as the guarantee, the examples of Enoch and Elijah as foretastes, and the final trumpet as the moment when all will be changed in the twinkling of an eye, so that death is swallowed up in victory.

Today’s Readings

John Calvin — Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 3, Chapter 25 (Sections 7-8)

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