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Additional authors

1. Crisp, Oliver

Description

1. xi, 243 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

1. 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. --

Series statement

1. Routledge new critical thinking in religion, theology, and biblical studies

Uniform title

1. Routledge new critical thinking in religion, theology, and biblical studies.

Subject

1. Resurrection
2. Future life
3. Hylomorphism

Contents

1. On the horns of a dilemma -- Physicalism and resurrection hope -- Lynne Baker's constitution metaphysics -- Hylemorphism and disembodied souls -- Eschatological presentism: a model of immediate eschatological resurrection -- Hylemorphism and eschatological presentism: on the resurrection of the dead.

Call number

1. JFE 19-821

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Turner, James T., Jr., author.

Title

1. On the resurrection of the dead : a new metaphysics of afterlife for Christian thought / James T. Turner, Jr.

Publisher

1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Routledge new critical thinking in religion, theology, and biblical studies
2. Routledge new critical thinking in religion, theology, and biblical studies.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Crisp, Oliver, writer of foreword.

LCCN

1. 2018027274

ISBN

1. 9781138350625 (hardback ; alk. paper)
2. 1138350621 (hardback ; alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 19-821