text: I don't think the Church does a good job of articulating the theology of Resurrection. What I was taught in seminary was that it doesn't mean a literal resuscitation of the old body, but that we would have transcendent, glorified bodies that wouldn't have the same material limitations we now have. The prototype is Jesus' body in the post-resurrection stories in the Gospels.
  
  But all the stuff about putting dead saints on display in churches, etc. kind of sends mixed signals. It's also kind of ghoulish, in my opinion. And it begs the inevitable questions about people who are mutilated, die in plane crashes and fires, etc.
  
  The idea of respectful burial isn't supposed to be that we keep dead bodies in pristine form so they can be ready to be resurrected, but that we treat sacred objects -- including the human body -- as sacred. The same goes with the respectful disposal of cremains. I have no problem with that.