Lottery puzzles and Jesus' "Return"
This paper is about a puzzle - I'll call it "the Return" - that puts considerable pressure upon Christians to accept a very robust scepticism about the future. Those familiar with work on so-called "lottery puzzles" will notice much similarity between those puzzles and the R...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2009
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Religious studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-49 |
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Parousia
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