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Centuries of Meditations
Thomas Traherne · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordResurrection is rising from death.
- In TraherneChrist’s resurrection belongs to the sequence of saving actions whose value becomes visible when the reader understands redemption’s end.
- In this editionDo not silently substitute “spiritual awakening” for the explicit bodily doctrine in III.43.
- A place to beginChrist’s resurrection is valued within the recovered understanding of redemption.
Meaning
Resurrection is rising from death. Traherne uses the doctrinal word for Christ and for the promised human future, rather than merely for a renewed state of mind.
Use in the book
Christ’s resurrection belongs to the sequence of saving actions whose value becomes visible when the reader understands redemption’s end. It is considered with incarnation, death, ascension, and intercession, within a single history of love. The sequence prevents a reading of the Centuries in which present delight absorbs the whole Christian hope.
In the survey of divinity, the resurrection of the body is distinguished from the condition of separate souls and placed with judgment and everlasting life. Communion will embrace these events as well as creation and present providence. The soul’s existing power to contemplate eternity consequently does not make bodily resurrection redundant; intellectual presence and the future state remain distinguishable dimensions of fulfillment.
Places to read
In this edition
Do not silently substitute “spiritual awakening” for the explicit bodily doctrine in III.43. Metaphorical rising elsewhere does not exhaust this headword’s principal use.
Source note
Primary text: II.5, III.43, III.100. No 2026 editorial notes used.