Trans-sensuous Life

A sceptical friend of ours called McPhee was arguing against the Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the human body. I was his victim at the moment and he was pressing on me in his Scots way with such questions as “So you think you’re going to have guts and a palate for ever in a world where there’ll be no eating, and genital organs in a world without copulation? Man, ye’ll have a grand time of it!” When Ransom suddenly burst out with great excitement, “Oh, don’t you see, you ass, that there’s a difference between a trans-sensuous life and a non-sensuous life?” That of course, directed McPhee’s fire to him. What emerged was that in Ransom’s opinion the present functions and appetities of the body would disappear, not because they were astrophied but because they were, as he said “engulfed”. -Prelandra by CS Lewis