ABSTRACT
Terminologically speaking, Jesus had been a ministering spirit when visiting ‘the spirits in prison’ while his body lay entombed. Once resurrected, however, Jesus ‘appeared as an angel’ to his disciples and ministered ‘to translated and resurrected bodies’, for Joseph envisaged an after-world populated by disembodied spirits and by translated or resurrected bodies. As for Jesus, where traditional Christianity debated two natures – divine and human – in one person, Talmage considered dual properties resulting from double parentage with a focus on death. From his heavenly father Jesus gained ‘the power to withstand death’ and from his earthly mother, ‘the capacity to die’. Pratt emphasizes the resurrection of ‘flesh and bones’ whilst insisting that ‘blood’ has no part in resurrected bodies. Jesus is ‘clothed with organs strong and lasting as the immortal mind’ that could ‘soar away’ to many worlds, including that of departed spirits.
