D. Z. Phillips on Christian immortality

D. Z. Phillips is widely assumed to have held that Christian immortality has no reality outside of language. The author challenges that assumption, demonstrating that Phillips wished to show that contemporary analytic philosophy distorts the reality that immortality has for believers. While most phi...

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Main Author: Horn, Patrick (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Nature B. V 2012
In: International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-53
Further subjects:B Consciousness
B D. Z. Phillips
B Immortality
B Mystery
B Eternal Life
B Christianity
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Summary:D. Z. Phillips is widely assumed to have held that Christian immortality has no reality outside of language. The author challenges that assumption, demonstrating that Phillips wished to show that contemporary analytic philosophy distorts the reality that immortality has for believers. While most philosophical accounts of Christian immortality depend upon terms that have little religious significance, Phillips offered accounts that stress the centrality of that significance. The author gives an account of the sort of philosophical attention that Phillips gave to Christian immortality and demonstrates Phillips’ lament for both the lack of this sort of attention in contemporary philosophy as well as the loss of certain ways of living that exemplify a belief in eternal life with God.
ISSN:1572-8684
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11153-010-9277-y