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One traditional Christian view of survival of death runs, in outline form, something like this: On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised, both the righteous and the unrighteous alike, to be judged by God; and the guarantee and model of the general resurrection (that is, the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
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See Stephen T. Davis, ‘Is Personal Identity Retained in The Resurrection?’ Modern Theology, 2 (4) (1986).
Cyril Richardson (ed.) Early Christian Fathers ( Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1953 ) p. 389.
See Harry A. Wolfson, ‘Immortality and Resurrection in the Philosophy of the Church Fathers’, in Krister Stendahl (ed.) Immortality and Resurrection ( New York: Macmillan, 1965 ) pp. 64–72.
See also Lynn Boliek, The Resurrection of the Flesh (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm B. Eerdmans, 1962 ).
Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (eds) The Ante-Nicene Fathers ( New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899 ) pp. 297–8.
Robert H. Gundry, Soma in Biblical Theology: With Emphasis on Pauline Anthropology ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976 ) p. 159.
H. H. Price, ‘Survival and the Idea of “Another World”’, in John Donnelly (ed.) Language, Metaphysics, and Death (New York: Fordham University Press, 1978) pp. 176–95. I do not wish to commit myself entirely to Price’s theory; among others, John Hick has detected difficulties in it. See Death and Eternal Life (New York: Harper & Row 1976) pp. 265–77. But Price’s main point — that disembodied survival of death is possible - seems to me correct.
Athenagoras, Embassy for Christians and the Resurrection of the Dead, trans. Joseph H. Crehan, S. J. ( London: Longmans, Green, 1956 ) pp. 115–16.
Augustine, The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1961 ) LXXXVII.
Cited in P. T. Geach, God and the Soul (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969 ) pp. 22, 40.
Frank Dilley, ‘Resurrection and the “Replica Objection”’, Religious Studies, 19, (4) (1983) p. 462.
Peter Van Inwagen, ‘The Possibility of Resurrection’, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, IX, (2) (1978) p. 119.
Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) p. 199f. I mention here only the most simple of the test cases involving teletransportation that Parfit discusses. Nor will I consider in this paper what I take to be the central theses of Part III of his book.
Paul Badham, Christian Beliefs About Life After Death (London: MacMillian Press, 1976) p. 50. Despite my disagreement with him on this point, it must be admitted that in his book Badham does successfully rebut several unconvincing patristic arguments about bodily resurrection.
See the articles collected in Bernard Williams, Problems of the Self ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973 ).
D. Z. Phillips, Death and Immortality ( New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1970 ).
Terence Penelhum, Survival and Disembodied Existence ( New York: Humanities Press, 1970 ).
John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality (Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett, 1978 ).
Among others, see Richard L. Purtill, ‘The Intelligibility of Disembodied Survival’, Christian Scholar’s Review, V (1) (1975) and Paul Helm, ‘A Theory of Disembodied Survival and Re-embodied Existence’, Religious Studies, 14 (1) (1978). See Also Bruce Reichenbach, Is Man the Phoenix?: A Study of Immortality ( Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1983 ).
Kai Nielsen, ‘Can Faith Validate God-talk?’ in my God, Skepticism and Modernity ( Ottawa, Ont.: University of Ottawa Press, 1988 ).
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Davis, S.T., Irish, J.A., Nielsen, K. (1989). The Resurrection of the Dead. In: Death and Afterlife. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10526-7_5
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