Interesting legal tid-bit

[james_davis_nicoll]

The government also argued a person’s charter rights end upon death.

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[jsburbidge.livejournal.com]

Correct: see N.T. Wright for a strongly-argued form of the argument.

The interim state is a popular belief which has never been officially affirmed as such by the Church (but IIRC was nearly officially condemned by one mediaeval pope, whose name escapes me at the moment). It is, however, implied by beliefs regarding purgatory and the intercession of saints, and can probably be considered part of the current residue of faith in both east and west. The only related thing in the creeds is the resurrection of the body.

The scholastics held that souls in heaven do not exist on their own but have interim spiritual bodies created for them, which will cease to be used at the time of the general resurrection. This allows the retention of the position that a soul cannot exist apart from a body.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

The scholastics held that souls in heaven do not exist on their own but have interim spiritual bodies created for them, which will cease to be used at the time of the general resurrection.

This is reminiscent of the rickety arrangement in Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, whereby 'toons can generate temporary doppelgangers to be employed in scenes where they are hit on the head by giant mallets, crushed by falling anvils, etc. (Their speeches are also emitted in literal word balloons.)

The film version replaced this junk with better worldbuilding.

Another theological link: Wolf went on to co-author a space opera with an archbishop. Andrew Greeley is gone now, but we still have Space Vulture.