Editing Rapture (section)

== Doctrinal position ==

A pretribulational rapture view is most commonly found among American [[Christian fundamentalism|Fundamentalist Baptists]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lifewayresearch.com/2016/04/26/pastors-the-end-of-the-world-is-complicated/|title=Pastors: The End of the World is Complicated|last=Smietana|first=Bob|date=26 April 2016|website=LifeWay Research|access-date=12 December 2019}}</ref> [[Bible church]]es,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1103&context=honors_theses|title=A History of the Independent Bible Church|last=Dearing|first=Karen Lynn|date=2001|work=Ouachita Baptist University|access-date=12 December 2019|page=20}}</ref> [[Brethren Church|Brethren churches]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://charisfellowship.us/cci|title=Our Identity|date=2017|website=Charis Fellowship|access-date=12 December 2019}}</ref> certain [[Methodist]] denominations,<ref name="Emmanuel2002">{{cite book |title=Guidebook of the Emmanuel Association of Churches |date=2002 |publisher=[[Emmanuel Association]] |location=[[Logansport, Indiana|Logansport]] |page=11 |language=English}}</ref> [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostals]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ag.org/Beliefs/Position-Papers/The-Rapture-of-the-Church|title=The Rapture of the Church|date=4 August 1979|website=Assemblies of God|access-date=12 December 2019}}</ref> [[Nondenominational Christianity|non-denominational evangelicals]], and various other evangelical groups.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the Great Plains|last=Decker|first=Rodney J.|publisher=Center for Great Plains Studies|year=2004|isbn=0-8032-4787-7|editor1-link=David J. Wishart|editor-last=Wishart|editor-first=David J.|location=Lincoln, NE|page=741|chapter=Religion—Dispensationalism}}</ref>{{Synthesis inline span||date=January 2023}} The [[Catholic Church]], [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Eastern Orthodox Church]],<ref name="r-synaxis" /> the [[Lutheran Church]]es, the [[Anglican Communion]], and [[Calvinism|Reformed]] denominations have no tradition of a preliminary return of Christ. The Eastern Orthodox Church, for example, favors the [[amillennialism|amillennial]] interpretation of prophetic Scriptures and thus rejects a preliminary, premillennial return.<ref>{{cite web |last=Cozby |first=Dimitri |date=September 1998 |title=What is 'The Rapture'? |url=http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/articles/dogmatics/cozby_rapture1.htm |access-date=22 March 2015 |publisher=Orthodox Research Institute |location=[[Rollinsford, New Hampshire]]}}</ref> Most Methodists do not adhere to the dispensationalist view of the rapture.<ref name="SFMC2022" />

===Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo===
In his ''Compendium Theologiae'', [[Thomas Aquinas]] quotes another [[Doctor of the Church]], [[Augustine of Hippo|St Augustine]], to explain that no one is spared death and the separation of the soul from the body. The rapture of the Church, on the other hand, concerns the death of the faithful and their immediate [[resurrection of the flesh]] immediately after death:<ref>{{cite book |url=https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/Compendium.htm#243 |title=Compendium Theologiae |chapter=243 - Universality of the Judgement |language=en}}</ref>
{{blockquote|Accordingly those who are found alive at the Lord’s coming will be marked off from those who have died before, not for the reason that they will never die, but because in the very act by which they are taken up “in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air” (1 Thessalonians 4: 16), they will die and immediately rise again, as Augustine teaches.|''Compendium Theologiae'', Ch. 243}}