The "Falling Elevator" and Resurrection from the Dead
In the paper I argue that the "falling elevator" model once proposed by Dean Zimmerman to improve some drawbacks of Peter van Inwagen's account of how a belief in Christian resurrection could be made compatible with a materialist understanding of human persons is not satisfactory. Chr...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
2021
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Ano: 2021, Volume: 13, Número: 1, Páginas: 83-102 |
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Van Inwagen, Peter 1942-
/ Zimmerman, Dean W.
/ Morte
/ Cristianismo
/ Ressurreição
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AB Filosofia da religião |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
materialist metaphysics of human persons Christian materialism
B Falling elevator B Christian Resurrection |
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| Resumo: | In the paper I argue that the "falling elevator" model once proposed by Dean Zimmerman to improve some drawbacks of Peter van Inwagen's account of how a belief in Christian resurrection could be made compatible with a materialist understanding of human persons is not satisfactory. Christian resurrection requires not only a survival, but also true death of a person, while the falling elevator can merely provide us with an account of how a material person is able miraculously to escape its own death. |
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| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.2909 |