Bodily resurrection: Comparative study between Sadra and Augustine

The problem of Resurrection has been an important part of the Abraham’s religions and these religions have tried to deal with this issue in different approaches.In this article, with an emphasis on comparative theology approach by reviewing various theories about the physical and spiritual resurrection in Islam and Christianity, will compare Mulla Sadra approach as a Muslim philosopher as well as a Christian philosopher St. Augustine approach in Faced with the question of the resurrection , and in particular the bodily resurrection. We show that the type of anthropology and cosmology Mulla Sadra highlighted the rational and textual proofs of bodily resurrection which emphasizing the importance of the material world in a divine pre-order as one of the stages of human development and live in it as a creation of God has great significance for human excellence to Armageddon. This approach provides the importance of the various aspects of the physical and natural world for Islamic theology. But the kind of theological anthropology and cosmology Augustinian denied the importance of the material world and this world was considered as the area of human punishment where he fall in as a result of original sin. Material and mundane aspects of human life and even death understood and interpreted in the light of God's punishment and wrath. And prosperity and human emancipation will be possible only with the grace of God on the Day of Judgment. So the natural world In the Christian theology, contrary to Islamic theology , rejected and will be negative in many aspects .