Slate has a pretty decent article on why resurrection, rather than the immortality of the soul, is the key Christian belief about life after death. Though I do sometimes think these two notions are needlessly set in opposition. It seems to me that the insistence of bodily resurrection qualifies a too spiritualistic idea of human life, but on the other hand, the NT, Paul in particular, is keen to qualify a too physicalistic notion of resurrection.
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal
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In NT Wright’s new book “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church” – I understand that he argues for bodily resurrection as opposed to the immortality of the soul, sits on my shelf.
However, I haven’t read it yet. I hope to get to it soon . . .
A Thinking Reed 
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