Concerning the dogma of the Assumption, Laurentin maintains that, like the preceding one, it has ‘no explicit Biblical foundation.’ This teaching is based on “the idea of the immortality of the rational soul, which is of Platonic origin,” affirms the magazine Concilium.

Was Mary taken up bodily into heaven? ‘The Scripture does not affirm the Assumption of Mary,’ says the Nuovo dizionario di teologia, and neither could it do so since it categorically states that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.”​—1 Corinthians 15:50, JB.