Resurrection and the natural sciences: some theological insights on sanctification and disability
I will explore the Christian concept of resurrection from a biblical perspective arguing that it is physical and found in the context of new creation. These two results are crucial for maintaining compatibility with the natural sciences, for neuroscience emphasises the importance of physicality for...
| Published in: | Science & Christian belief |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Paternoster Press
[2015]
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Science & Christian belief
Year: 2015, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 41-58 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science NBD Doctrine of Creation NBE Anthropology NBQ Eschatology |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Neurosciences B Sanctification B Polkinghorne B Disabilities B Eschatology B Disability B Resurrection B Neuroscience B Matter B Cosmology B POLKINGHORNE, John, 1930- B Identity |
| Summary: | I will explore the Christian concept of resurrection from a biblical perspective arguing that it is physical and found in the context of new creation. These two results are crucial for maintaining compatibility with the natural sciences, for neuroscience emphasises the importance of physicality for identity and cosmology stresses the necessary transformation of the universe if, ultimately, life is to survive. By placing these ideas in dialogue, the importance of the eschatological transformation of both pattern and matter can be seen. This in turn has theological consequences for understanding both how sanctification can be perfected in the resurrection and how disability can be understood in the resurrected life without personal identity being obscured. |
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| Reference: | Kritik in "Disability and the resurrection body (2015)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Science & Christian belief
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