Done in the Body: The Eternal Meaning of Our Present Life | Prof. Bruce Marshall

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This lecture was given on February 27, 2022 at Cedarbrake Renewal Center as part of the Second Annual Texas Student Retreat: "The Meaning of Death and Eternal Life." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Bruce D. Marshall is Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at Southern Methodist University. His teaching specialties are Medieval and Reformation theology and systematic theology. His research interests include Doctrine of the Trinity, Christology, philosophical issues in theology, sacramental theology, and Judaism and Christian theology. He is the author of Trinity and Truth (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

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0:11.1	My title for this morning's first lecture is done in the body, the eternal meaning of our present life.
0:19.4	The phrase done in the body is from St. Paul's second
0:23.6	letter to the Corinthians in a passage that I'll spend some time on momentarily.
0:31.6	The New Testament and Catholic teaching are clear that when the course of our earthly life comes to its end, we must appear
0:41.4	before Jesus Christ. We must come before Jesus, and God will make a decision about us,
0:53.3	which Jesus will carry out, or Jesus will make a decision about us which Jesus will carry out, or Jesus will make God's judgment upon us.
1:01.0	And in this judgment, we will have to give an account of our lives.
1:07.0	The New Testament is remarkably consistent that this judgment will be based on what we have
1:14.3	done. I'm a convert to Catholicism, and I was Lutheran before. I've been Catholic for a long time,
1:21.3	but it took me a while to sort of figure this out. Actually, if you read the New Testament,
1:26.6	it doesn't say that
1:27.6	we'll be, the divine decision about us will be based on what we believe. It's repeatedly consistent.
1:33.4	It will be based on what we've done. It will be based on our works. It's for these that we must
1:38.2	account. Our final destiny, our eternal life or eternal death, our eternal salvation or eternal damnation,
1:48.1	will depend on whether what we have done is pleasing to God.
1:53.5	And it will need to be pleasing to God, not in some general sense of God, but to Christ
1:59.0	our God, as our Orthodox brothers and sisters say in their
2:03.8	liturgy, to Christ our God, that is to Jesus, he will decide what is to become of us. He will
2:12.3	decide what our eternity will be based on how we have lived in this world and whether it pleases him.
2:22.7	So we turn to the passage from St. Paul. This is 2 Corinthians 5, the paragraph beginning around
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