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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Setting the scene
II Theological affirmations
TA1: That bodily resurrection is not a superfluous hope of afterlife
TA2: There is immediate post-mortem existence in Paradise
TA3: There is numerical identity between pre-mortem and post-resurrection human beings
TAs 1–3: taken together
III Chapter breakdown
1 On the horns of a dilemma
A theological problem
I How did we get here?
I.1 Jewish eschatology: continued
I.2 Apostolic fathers, Papias, and early church fathers: a quick historical progression
I.3 Paradise and church teaching
II If substance dualism is true, then Paul’s argument is unsound
III Some objections and some rejoinders
IV If Paul’s argument is sound, then substance dualism is false
V Substance dualism and the intermediate state: a post-mortem and a way ahead
2 Physicalism and resurrection hope
Introduction
A very brief excursus on Locke’s Axiom (LA)
I The Simulacrum Thesis
II The Falling Elevator Model
III Anti-criterialism
IV Wrapping up
3 Lynne Baker’s constitution metaphysics
Introduction
I Primary kinds and constitution
II Numerical identity and a false analogy
III No working definition (CP1)
IV Too many persons or no human persons at all (CP2)
V There are no essential differences between divine and human persons (CP3)
VI Baker and resurrection
Conclusion
4 Hylemorphism and disembodied souls
Introduction
I Hylemorphism
II A word about the human soul as form
III Material substantial forms and immaterial substantial forms
IV Addressing the trilemma: horns (a), (b), and (c)
IV.1 Horn (c): human souls are not “metaphysical amphibians”
IV.2 Horns (a) and (b)
V Concluding thoughts
5 Eschatological Presentism: A model of immediate eschatological resurrection
Introduction
I A quick summary: theories of time
II Theology and temporal topology: a new theory
II.1 Why not four-dimensionalism or presentism?
II.2 Compound presentism
II.3 Eschatological Presentism (EP)
II.4 A theological problem?
III Summary
6 Hylemorphism and Eschatological Presentism: on the resurrection of the dead
Introduction
I Body Identity Physicalism (BIP) and Eschatological Presentism
II Hylemorphism and Eschatological Presentism
III Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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