Joseph Ratzinger's Debates with Gisbert Greshake: An Argument for the Resurrection of Matter

Debates in eschatology have been unresolved regarding the place of earthly matter in the resurrection. I analyze the positions of Joseph Ratzinger and Gisbert Greshake and argue in favor of Ratzinger's position. He defends a transphysical bodily resurrection that involves the matter of this wor...

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Main Author: Ehrman, Terrence Patrick (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Modern theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 239-258
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Benedikt, XVI., Pope 1927-2022 / Greshake, Gisbert 1933- / Eschatology / Resurrection / Body
IxTheo Classification:KDB Roman Catholic Church
NBE Anthropology
NBQ Eschatology
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Summary:Debates in eschatology have been unresolved regarding the place of earthly matter in the resurrection. I analyze the positions of Joseph Ratzinger and Gisbert Greshake and argue in favor of Ratzinger's position. He defends a transphysical bodily resurrection that involves the matter of this world over against Greshake's resurrection in death eschatology and anthropology that entails the resurrection of a phenomenological but not a physical body. What is at stake in this debate is nothing less than the meaning of creation in God's salvific economy.
ISSN:1468-0025
Contains:Enthalten in: Modern theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/moth.12493