The views here given may be considered, on the whole, the Orthodox notions on this subject, although Orthodoxy is by no means rigorous on these points. Considerable diversity of opinion is here allowed. The nature of the life between death and the resurrection, and the nature of the resurrection body, are differently apprehended, without any discredit to the Orthodoxy of the belief. But, on the whole, we may say that the Orthodox views on these topics include the following heads:— 1. Man consists of soul and body. 2. The soul of man is naturally immortal. 3. The only satisfactory proof of this immortality is the resurrection of Christ. 4. Christ’s resurrection consisted in his return to earth in the same body as that with which he died, though glorified. 5. Our resurrection will consist in our taking again the same bodies which we have now, glorified if we are Christians, but degraded if we are not. ------------------------------------- On the other hand, those views which incline towards rationalism and spiritualism agree in part with these statements, and in part differ; thus:— 1. They usually agree with Orthodoxy in believing man to consist of soul and body. 2. They also agree in believing the soul of man naturally immortal. 3. They differ from Orthodoxy in thinking the proof of immortality to be found in human consciousness, not at all in the resurrection of Jesus. We will therefore examine these two points of immortality and the resurrection, to see what the true doctrine of Scripture is concerning them. § 2. The Doctrine of Immortality as taught by Reason, the Instinctive Consciousness, and Scripture. The first class of proofs usually adduced for immortality are the rational proofs, which are such as these:—