On Two Reasons Christian Theologians Should Reject The Intermediate State
Typically, Christian theology includes an understanding of human afterlife consisting of two stages. The first is a disembodied existence as an immaterial being in the time between death and resurrection. Normally, it’s affirmed that some disembodied humans go to Heaven/Paradise between one’s death...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2017
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Journal of reformed theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 11, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 121-139 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NBQ Eschatology VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Intermediate State
resurrection
theological anthropology
philosophical anthropology
substance dualism
Cartesian dualism
analytic theology
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Volltext (Publisher) |
| Summary: | Typically, Christian theology includes an understanding of human afterlife consisting of two stages. The first is a disembodied existence as an immaterial being in the time between death and resurrection. Normally, it’s affirmed that some disembodied humans go to Heaven/Paradise between one’s death and resurrection; this is a state I call The Intermediate State. The second stage is the bodily resurrection. In this paper, I focus on The Intermediate State. Though the majority of the Christian tradition affirms it, I think it’s mistaken. To show two reasons why, I argue that a traditional metaphysics of human persons deployed to explicate The Intermediate State brings with it one or the other of at least two untoward consequences for Christian theology. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1569-7312 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of reformed theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01101023 |
