Whether the body is only a temporary vehicle or one that is permanent (through eternity), keeping a holistic approach is important. I think many of the same challenges face both views if we look into the question of what happens after we're dead. I think that in some respects we are already resurrected - in the sense that my mother formed my flesh by eating food formed in the earth fertilized by the dead buried there before. So in some sense my flesh is already a reincarnation of many creatures that went before.

This idea makes is hard for me to think clearly about the classical Christian idea that our bodies are raised - so I'll look like me, only more so. What I really think this idea is pointing to is the totality of all flesh and spirit and that when we die we are still whole and part of the great cosmic fabric.

Or something.