Embodied Afterlife: The Hope of an Immediate Resurrection (Paperback or Softback)

For many Christians, one of the most important aspects of their faith is the sure and certain knowledge that they will be reborn after death, resurrected to live on forever, free from suffering and pain. Most of us imagine that this is a distant future event. We have conflicting information about heaven being an eternal disembodied spiritual state or a temporal disembodied state, where one waits for the general resurrection. But what if there was an alternative?

This book, Embodied Afterlife: The Hope of an Immediate Resurrection, explores the possibility of another option, in chapters that examine:

The resurrection of Christ
The problem of an intermediate state in heaven
Near death experiences (NDE’s)
The makeup of the body, soul and spirit
Concepts of time in the afterlife
Hope for the future
And more…

The idea that there is the possibility of an immediate resurrection provides a promising alternative to the traditional beliefs and concept of the afterlife held by most Christians.

Embodied Afterlife is intended to shape that thinking and bring that expectation into sharper focus so that we may all follow in Jesus’s footsteps in resurrected life as he has conquered death, with the knowledge that the physical resurrection we seek is not in some distant future but immediate.

Robert Falconer was born and raised in South Africa and is a theologian who holds degrees in architecture and theology. Following periods of practicing architecture in Scotland and South Africa, he and his wife spent time working as missionaries in Kenya before returning to make their home back in South Africa.

Robert is the Head of Student Research at the South African Theological Seminary and has a wide range of research interests and ideas, which he shares with laypeople through his blogs, sermons, and books, in addition to publishing academic papers.

Robert lives in St Francis Bay, South Africa, with his wife Catherine and their sons Ezekiel and Gabriel.