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On the Resurrection of the Dead - A New Metaphysics of Afterlife for Christian Thought (Paperback)
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On the Resurrection of the Dead - A New Metaphysics of Afterlife for Christian Thought (Paperback)
Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
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Christian tradition has largely held three theological affirmations
on the resurrection of the physical body. Firstly, that bodily
resurrection is not a superfluous hope of afterlife. Secondly,
there is immediate post-mortem existence in Paradise. Finally,
there is numerical identity between pre-mortem and
post-resurrection human beings. The same tradition also largely
adheres to a robust doctrine of The Intermediate State, a
paradisiacal disembodied state of existence following the
biological death of a human being. This book argues that these
positions are in fact internally inconsistent, and so a new
theological model for life after death is required. The opening
arguments of the book aim to show that The Intermediate State
actually undermines the necessity of bodily resurrection.
Additionally, substance dualism, a principle The Intermediate State
requires, is shown to be equally untenable in this context. In
response to this, the metaphysics of the afterlife in Christian
theology is re-evaluated, and after investigating physicalist and
constitutionist replacements for substance dualist metaphysics, a
new theory called "Eschatological Presentism" is put forward. This
model combines a broadly Thomistic hylemorphic metaphysics with a
novel theory of Time. This is an innovative examination of the
doctrine of life after death. It will, therefore, be of great
interest to scholars of analytic theology and philosophy of
religion.
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