RT Article
T1 Pannenberg’s Doctrine of Resurrection as Science
JF Open theology
VO 5
IS 1
SP 466
OP 481
A1 Yang, Jae
LA English
PB De Gruyter
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1830005294
AB This article argues that Wolfhart Pannenberg’s doctrine of resurrection can be demonstrated as science. I utilize the so-called "soft" sciences (history and anthropology) alongside the "hard" sciences (cosmology and neuroscience) to demonstrate the rationality of the ostensibly miraculous resurrection. In the discussion, I argue against empiricists who posit the impossibility of the resurrection on account of analogy to favor Pannenberg’s approach of contingency and human exocentricity. Paralleling the shift in Pannenberg’s own theological approach from anthropology to the Trinity, I also argue that Pannenberg’s focus on the hard sciences in his later career reflects his concern for a more "objective" approach. Related to the hard sciences, I take the principle of continuity/discontinuity which touches on issues such as contingency, field theory, time and eternity, and various cosmological theories to demonstrate the scientific possibility of the resurrection that is both this worldly and other worldly. Moreover, using neuroscientific insights, I argue that the resurrection is not an immortality of the soul but a new body, consistent with modern science’s emphasis on physicalism, lifted by a scientifically explained exocentric field. In the discussion, I argue that Pannenberg is a modified Kuhnian who underscores evidence and facts but also the context from which they emerge.
K1 Anthropology
K1 Cosmology
K1 Hume
K1 Kuhn
K1 Neuroscience
K1 Resurrection
K1 Science
K1 Theology
K1 theology and science
K1 Wolfhart Pannenberg
DO 10.1515/opth-2019-0037