St. Anselm of Cantebury (A.D. 1033-1109) insisted on the material nature of the resurrection body. Speaking on the topic, "How man will rise with the same body which he has in this world," he argued that "if a man is to be perfectly restored, the restoration should make him such as he would have been had he never sinned....

Therefore, as man, had he not sinned, was to have been transformed with the same body to an immortal state, so when he shall be restored, it must properly be with his own body as he lived in this world."13 The great theologian, Thomas Aquinas (A.D. 1224-1274), said of the resurrection: "The soul does not take an airy or heavenly body, or a body of another organic constitution, but a human body composed of flesh and bones and the same members enjoyed at present."